Fiona McIntyre

Born Fiona Mary Elspeth McIntyre in Nairobi 1963.

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. After training at Edinburgh College of Art Fiona moved to Sweden where she lived with her Icelandic first husband. After learning to speak Swedish and a smattering of Icelandic Fiona set about finding herself an art studio at the much publicised Lӓderfabriken in Malmӧ, the first art collective of it's kind in Skåne. While at the Lӓderfabriken studios Fiona won a regional competition to make public art for Malmӧ General Hospital. She exhibited regularly in Sweden and Norway including taking part in art performances at Museums in Lund and Malmӧ. In 1988 Fiona was one of only four students to be accepted into the innovative printworkshop of Surrealist Bertil Lundberg (who had worked at the famous Atelier 17 under William Stanley Hayter in the 1930's). Lundberg was impressed with Fiona's drawing skills and guided her in developing a surrealist/expressionist series of paintings and prints inspired by her Scandinavian environment. Fiona went on to develop a more experimental style of printmaking at studios in Barcelona where she  improvised with new materials to develop a powerful and personal language around the human body as self expression. While living in Barcelona Fiona worked as assistant to Master Printmaker Masafumi Yamamoto where she editioned etchings using a variety of Catalan and Japanese printmaking techniques including the 'viscosity technique'. In 1993 Fiona moved to London where she taught and lectured at several schools including Post Graduate Painting at Central School of Speech & Drama. Later moving to Exeter and then Bath Fiona continued to develop her painting and prints at Widcombe Studios (now Bath Artists Studios) and Spike Island, Bristol. Since 2004 Fiona's studio has been based in Gloucestershire from where she is developing painting by exploring different landscapes as far afield as the West Coast of Scotland and Cornwall, she also teaches at Cirencester New Brewery Arts. Fiona is married with one daughter.