Scottish artist Andrew McIntosh, known for his dreamy use of soft blues, grays, and oranges, introduces a bold new series in sanguine red. These crimson works extend McIntosh’s signature exploration of otherworldly landscapes, casting mountains and valleys in a surreal and mysterious glow. Mysterious orbs hover above the rugged terrain, adding to the enigmatic atmosphere.
Reflecting on his art, McIntosh notes, “These works sit somewhere between memory and invention—familiar landscapes interrupted by something I don’t fully understand.”
Currently showcased at School Gallery, McIntosh’s striking artworks feature in his solo exhibition, I Hope This Transmission Finds You Soon. The exhibition explores themes of alien communication and the mysteries that persist even in familiar surroundings, drawing inspiration from Cormac McCarthy’s 1985 novel Blood Meridian, a Gothic Western known for its themes of violence and dominance.
The gallery provides further context with a fitting quote from the book:
The truth about the world … is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance be populate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tent show whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
I Hope This Transmission Finds You Soon is open to visitors until May 30 in Folkestone, U.K. Discover more of McIntosh’s work on Instagram.
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