Nature's Design Art Exhibit by John Mackintosh

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Monday, June 29th, 2015

Art Exhibition by John Mackintosh in the Artist's Corner at the Greater Victoria Public Library's central branch from June 19 to July 31.

The exhibit can be viewed 24/7 from the exterior of the courtyard. Access to the exhibit inside the library is available during library hours.

About the Artist

Canadian painter John Mackintosh uses a personal iconography and heavily stylized aesthetic that remain widely accessible. His works with acrylic have a sweeping grandeur that evokes an aura of myth and universal resonance. Complex figures and settings burst forth with dramatic and clean three-dimensional hues, eliciting an uncanny impression of volume. Mackintosh uses strong colors, sharp dramatic lines and carefully rendered shading to create a sense of connection and narrative progression that leads viewers through the canvas.

Indeed, much of Mackintosh’s self-taught art practice is informed by his interest in systems of belief, faith and nature. Accordingly, his paintings pose natural shapes, objects and beings in highly-symbolic settings, creating a kind of spiritual model from relatively common figures. In elaborately abstracted backdrops and characters melded with their natural surroundings, viewers get a sense of the metaphysical connections linking supposedly separate entities. Disparate objects brought under John Mackintosh’s softly grandiose aesthetic achieve a kind of synergy, testifying to the presence of some invisible power connecting all living things.