EMMA McINTYRE, ARTIST
If painter Emma McIntyre stays in her Los Angeles studio late enough in the day, she is treated to the sight of the sky bursting into shades of pink, orange and red from the setting sun. All these colours and more find a home in her abstract works, which begin with a base of oil paint and are built, layer by layer, as pigment, gesture and texture collide in a frenzy on the canvas. “Sometimes it feels like I can almost see the finished work and the painting process is about finding it,” McIntyre explains.
Her father, Simon, and grandfather, Peter, were both painters. “Nothing was more normal for me growing up than aspiring to a career as an artist,” she says, of a childhood surrounded by…
