Collection: Kirsty McIntyre

Royal Visit

Artist Statement

Kirsty McIntyre is a Melbourne based artist working mainly with palette knife and oil paint on canvas, with Australian flowers and the native birds that visit her outdoor compositions, or are captured (as images) on her birding expeditions.  

Her style is best described in a review by Peter Haynes in the Canberra Times; 

“McIntyre’s use of pattern is beautifully controlled. The artist’s use of an intense light suffuses the overall composition allowing each element to be clearly delineated and hold pictorial autonomy. Light also imbues a sense of McIntyre's capturing a moment in time. The beautifully random compositions filled with freely dispersed floral and 

other objects have a sense of delicate movement, of the transitoriness of nature and 

of the innate beauty in that transitoriness.” 

Initially self-taught she has since had private tuition and workshops with Australian artists, Ron Reynolds, Richard Claremont, Jenie Fawkner, Nicholas Chen, Lana Dauberman and international artists, Ed Praybe, Susan Lichtman, Jennifer Poichinski, Catherine Kehoe and Zoey Frank.