Alex McIntosh
Artist and printmaker, Alex McIntosh, lives and works in the North East of England. Alex studied printmaking during a degree in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan university. Printmaking continued to be his focus during his MA, in Fine Art, at UCLan (University of Central Lancashire).
In his work he tries to capture the essence of what it truly feels like to stand in a particular landscape, be it watching the endless changing of a shoreline as the sea ebbs and flows or be it standing surrounded by trees in the middle of a forest. Because of his interest in trying to capture the felt experience of a space, he often mixes photographic and hand drawn elements to move an image away from being just documentative.
There is often a photographic element to his work, however, he sees himself first and foremost as a printmaker. This is mostly because he finds the ritual of printmaking allows him to think creatively as well as enabling him to best express his experience of a landscape. It is sketches and photographs, taken on walks, that form the foundation of his prints. Creating the final print often means changing these proprietary sketches and photographs, which leads to results that are never wholly expected and always a pleasant surprise. It is this element of the unexpected that keeps many printmakers enthralled. It certainly does him.
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