Fiona McIntyre

 

MA Winchester School of Art in Barcelona

Grafikskolan Forum under Professor Bertil Lundberg, Sweden

Edinburgh College of Art

West Surrey College of Art and Design

Fiona McIntyre was brought up in Dublin in the late 60's in a musical and artistic family. Her Great Grandfather was the Camden Town Group painter Malcolm Drummond and like him Fiona studied at Edinburgh College of Art. Later she moved to Sweden where she won a public competition to make public art, perfomed Dadaistic poetry at Art Museums and developed her painting and printmaking at studios in Malmo and Lund.

Fiona studied under Surrealist Bertil Lundberg at his printworkshop Grafikskolan Forum and this proved to be a very productive period where Fiona developed an expressionistic and rather dark series of paintings and prints inspired by her Scandinavian environment and frequent visits to Iceland.

Fiona went on to develop a more experimental style of printmaking during Post Grad studies at Winchester studios in Barcelona. This was a very inspiring time which enabled Fiona to improvise with new materials and develop a powerful and personal language around the human body as self expression. While living in Barcelona Fiona worked as assistant to printmaker Masafumi Yamamoto and was inspired by his fusion of Catalan and Japanese printmaking techniques.

In 1993 Fiona moved to London for several years where she taught and lectured at several schools including Post Grad painting students at Central School of Speech & Drama. This was a frenetic period of juggling several jobs as well as developing her own art at Delfina Studios and The Block Printworkshop. Later after retraining Fiona spent several years in London, Exeter and Bath working in Graphic Design.

During this period Fiona continued to develop her painting at Widcombe Studios and prints at Spike Island until eventually after winning prizes two years running she was invited to become a member of The Bath Society of Artists in 2002.

Fiona is currently based in the Cotswolds where she is developing her painting in relationship to the Gloucestershire landscape. She is exploring agricultural and natural patterns and the vibrant red earth tones and tangled trees that make this region so visualy inspiring.