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Richard & Rob

Paintings Over £1250

By Alex McIntyre

Contact Alex to purchase or
arrange a covid aware studio visit
E: [email protected]
T: 07866 734 920

A Sense of Freedom, 2020, £1250
50 x 90cm



Like Breathing / Like Flying

Like Breathing / Like Flying diptych is
about being up high on the moors,
walking for miles as the sun shines. It is
the freedom of a sense of space, of being
able to see into the distance and
experience the joy of solitude.

There is no one else for miles.

Just you, the larks and the blue sky
dancing with the clouds.

Like Breathing / Like Flying, 2020,
£3000 / $4000
Ink + gesso on poplar ply, each painting 76 x 86 x
5.5cm 29.52 x 33.46 framed.
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Look up to catch comets + Do not
trouble to head anywhere but the sky

I first encountered the poem ‘Of Mutability’ by
Jo Shapcott in 2004 whilst I was working for
the Birmingham Book Festival. Written when
the poet was undergoing treatment for cancer,
the poem feels like a roar of hope in the midst of
difficulties. For me, it is an instruction to seize
the life we have with all its magic and wonder
and ‘do not trouble to head anywhere but the
sky’.

I return to this poem whenever I need a shot of Look up to catch comets + Do not trouble
perspective, or courage, or just to delight in the to head anywhere but the sky
vibrant joy of the second stanza. Last summer £6000 / $8000
the poem wouldn’t leave me alone, knocking Each painting 156 x 100 x 5.5 cm | 61.41 x 41.7 x
against my skull in every waking moment. So as 2.1 inches framed
I walked late into summer twilight, these Shipping not included.
paintings arrived.





8 Miles with Sky

Late summer moving into autumn, this painting
is recently harvested fields and the scent of
dusty earth, sun mingled, with recent rain.

It is the billowing moment when the earth’s heat
has evaporated upwards into rumbling sky.

There is the stir of wind, crisp stubby grasses
under foot, damp oats and flashes of vivid blue.

8 Miles with Sky, 2019,
£3000 / $4000
106 x 156 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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Red Morning I

Part of a series of paintings inspired by a
process of rising in the dark and walking
through the dawn. It holds the memory of
crackling wind in January, the screeching of
owls and the leaping bounds of muntjac deer
disturbed by human presence.

The title references the rhyme “Red sky in the
morning is a shepherd’s warning, red sky at
night is a shepherd’s delight”. They are a fierce
response to Brexit and contain a sense of
foreboding. There is tension yet it is possible the
sky will still brighten.

Red Morning I, 2019,
£3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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Red Morning II

Part of a series of paintings inspired by a Red Morning II, 2019,
process of rising in the dark and walking £3000 / $4000
through the dawn. 126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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This painting is the experience of leaving the
cover of dark woodland to come out into the
light. It is catching my breath as the glowing sky
illuminates the trees and fields. It is unreality,
part daydream and magic.

The title references the rhyme “Red sky in the
morning is a shepherd’s warning, red sky at
night is a shepherd’s delight”. This second
painting is still a fierce response to Brexit. The
pale golds feel more hopeful whilst the curve of
the land and trees is odd and uncomfortable.





Restfulness of light

This painting is a homage to a particular field. I
used to pass it on my way to and from the
studio. It was always gentle and often seen in
the gloaming half light of dusk and dawn. I
loved the redness of turned earth and the sense
of possibility in looking towards its edges into
the sky.

The restfulness of light, 2016,
£3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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The restfulness of light, 2017, £3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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Red Kite
Calling

This painting is special. It encompasses a
moment of discovering a particular way of
working with materials to build up a patina - the
cloud is saturated, muscly with inky layers. The
blue buzzes. It feels like a window into air and
freedom - with just enough land to put your feet
on.

Red Kite Calling, 2018, £3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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Winter Rust, 2018, £3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
Shipping not included.



The buzz of yellow fields and indigo skies, 2018,£3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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CONTENTS

Like Fiction, 2020, £3000 / $4000
100 x 150 x 3.2cm | 39.8 x 59.1 inches

Chromatic Grey Skies, 2020,
£3000 / $4000
100 x 150 x 3.2cm | 39.8 x 59.1 inches

Grey Skies Change, 2020,
£3000 / $4000
100 x 150 x 3.2cm | 39.8 x 59.1 inches

Like Breathing / Like Flying, 2020,
£3000 / $4000
Each painting 76 x 86 x 5.5cm 29.52 x 33.46 framed.

Look up to catch comets + Do not trouble to head
anywhere but the sky
£6000 / $8000
Each painting 156 x 100 x 5.5 cm | 61.41 x 41.7 x 2.1 inches framed

Learning to Breathe, 2019,
£3000 / $4000
106 x 156 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed.

8 Miles with Sky, 2019,
£3000 / $4000
106 x 156 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed

About Alex: liquid gesso using a brush, palette knife and rags.
Using sandpaper, wire wool and wood carving
Working as a professional artist since 2007, I tools I also carve into the gesso. The ink is
currently paint from a studio in Hertfordshire, pushed into it and lifted again to reveal layered
UK. marks.

The paintings offer spaces of deep listening, For the viewer, the works invite a shift in
embodied reflection and transportation for the perspective often providing space to breathe.
viewer. They are an invitation to breathe more
deeply, to be alert and present, to step out of the What have other people said?
mental noise of everyday life.
“You’re offering peace”, conversation with
The Process: collector 2019.

The paintings are typically made using light fast “Turner redone by Rothko”, Visitor to The Other
acrylic ink and traditional gesso ground on birch, Art Fair, Brooklyn, 2019
poplar or marine ply. I draw outside in order to
be immersed in looking at the world around “A Rough British Wilderness Vibe” Visitor to The
me.“Fast photographs” are used to snatch Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London, UK 2018
moments and colours. Long distance walking,
running and cycling helps me observe changes of “Moments of reverie and the finding of
light, land and sky through my body. The making sanctuary” Visitor to The Other Art Fair,
process itself is then a conversation with surface Victoria House, London, UK, 2018
and materials through accidents, play,
construction and destruction. I build up the
surface by “blind painting” (white on white) with

When you buy the right painting for your home, it’s like living with a
friend. You build a relationship with each other over time and that
companionship is for life.

More paintings are available in different sizes and prices.

To discuss a purchase or arrange a studio visit get in contact via
[email protected] / 07866 734 920.