IN THE WORDS OF PETER DAVIES, July 2019
The richly sensual, poetic and lyrical landscape paintings of the Edinburgh trained Scot Fiona McIntyre belong both to a strand of French-inspired tartan colourism and painterliness, and to an English romanticism that goes beyond landscape topography and customary allusion to genius logi to divine mystical truths and esoteric energies in wild and open or cultivated and enclosed environments containing lakes, with their mysterious and unfathonable reflections, trees, castles or other historically and culturally significant architectural landmarks…
Her intensely characteristic palette of acid greens, yellows, zingy viridians, alizarin and deep prussian purples came from these sources though her forays into printmaking in Sweden, Iceland and beyond particularly large scale etchings, revealed a graphic and monochromatic dexterity to her overall artistic sensibility that added expressive variety from, and counterpoint to, the painting with its all-important gestural touch and saturated colour.
Paintings and drawing inspired by an ancient oak tree in Horner’s Wood for an exhibition and collaboration between Exmoor Trust and The Arborealists at Lanacre Barn, Withypool 2021
Late Summer, oil on linen, 50 x 70 cm, 202. From a series of work to be exhibited in ‘Shades of Green’ curated by Sandra Higgins, Bath, summer 2022. https://www.sandrahiggins.art/