FIONA McINTYRE
Sacred Earth: Water Tree Stone
NEW EXHIBITION AND BOOK LAUNCH AT
NATURE IN ART MUSEUM AND ART GALLLERY
31 March - 10 May, 2026
FAD MAGAZINE, 8 April, 2026
PAUL’S BOOK OF THE MONTH: FIONA McINTYRE - SACRED EARTH
“This handsome account of Fiona McIntyre’s recent work demonstrates how it emerges from an unusually thoroughgoing engagement with landscapes…She moves from on-site sketches to studio studies to full-scale works using paints she has made herself out of mineral rock oxides, so literally building in the landscape. The results have a primal and lyrical energy…the physical act of foraging, processing and mulling minerals with a binder is an act of reverance to the earth that feeds into the paintings.”
Paul Carey-Kent
Art critic and curator
Writing regularly for Art Monthly, Frieze,World of Interiors, Seisma, Border Crossings, Artlyst, FAD
The artist foraging raw oxide from a river bank ©Steve Russell Studios, Chalford, 2026
A Special Event - 18 April, 6.30 - 8pm
Private View with Book Launch and Talks
to coincide with Sacred Earth: Water, Tree, Stone
an exhibition of 49 new works by Fiona McIntyre
Bookings: Nature In Art
PROGRAMME
6.30 Meet the artist Fiona McIntyre and book signing
7.30 Finger buffet
8.10 Short talks by Fiona McIntyre, Nicola Moorby, Curator of Historic British Art, 1790-1850 at Tate Britain and
Christiana Payne, Professor Emerita of History of Art at Oxford Brookes University.
An exhibition of oil paintings and works on paper.
McIntyre’s sensitively made artworks of raw minerals mulled in oil connect us to fragile landscapes and ecological concerns.
The book is endorsed by experts in the field of ecology and ancient history.
Works made from mineral and clay pigments on linen and casein gesso panels
Painting on canvs made from mineral and clay pigments in oil.
Mineral pigments and ochres mulled in oil on linen and casein gesso panels. Works on paper made from material foraged and transformed into ink.
Sketchbooks and tools for applying silver leaf.
Pigments making equipment with glass muller and foraged ink material.
Sacred Earth: Water, Tree, Stone in the long gallery at Nature In Art Museum, Gloucestershire.
‘What a wonderful book! Showcasing a series of new paintings created by Fiona McIntyre in Scotland, Iceland and Galicia, and made with remarkable natural pigments using traditional paint-mixing techniques, this book offers much more than a journey through remote and mysterious landscapes. It is equally a spiritual voyage and an exploration of colour, texture, light, and the elemental forces of nature. Inspired by Turner and the Scottish Colourists, Fiona McIntyre presents a deeply personal and emotional interpretation of these diverse landscapes, fully immersed in a rich artistic tradition.’
Stanislav Edward Shmelev, Founder and CEO, Environment Europe Foundation, 2026
Sacred Earth read in Icelandic, Galego and Gaelic by Birna Mattíasdóttír, Yrma Fernández López and Niall Bartlett. Written, filmed and edited by Fiona McIntyre.