Donald McIntyre RCA
1923-2009
Donald McIntyre
Donald McIntyre (1923-2009) was a landscape and coastal painter. Born in Leeds to Scottish parents, McIntyre grew up on the West Coast of Scotland. He studied art under James Wright RSW at Garelochhead and developed a style in the Scottish Colourist tradition.
In the 1950s, McIntyre moved to North Wales. It was there that he had a long series of solo exhibitions starting at the Howard Roberts Gallery in Cardiff and later the Thackeray Gallery. McIntyre’s earlier work, up until the 1980s, had an earthier palette and frequently included mysterious figures. The artist’s later work gravitated towards vivid colours in the Colourist tradition.
McIntyre was a member of the Pastel Society, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Society of Marine Artists. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy, and his work can be found in the collections of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, The National Library of Wales, Newport Art Gallery and Kirkaldy Museum.
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Two figures on a windy day
£3,800
“The influences and images of childhood are deep and lasting, and so it is has been with Donald McIntyre for his boyhood was spent in the North West of Scotland among the blues of sea, sky and mountain and the rich green, saffron and umber of the small fields and hillsides. Here, unknowingly, his palette was formed and when in later life he came to Wales he viewed the landscape, not as a Welshman, but as a Scot who painted in the free exuberant spirit of his fellow countrymen and with a deep knowledge and appreciation of the best of European painting.”