Kirsty McIntyre is a Melbourne based artist working mainly with palette knife and oil paint on canvas, with Australian themed still life subjects, and the native birds that visit her compositions. Described in a review by Peter Haynes in the Canberra Times on 4/11/22; “McIntyre’s use of pattern is beautifully controlled. The artist’s use of an intense light suffuses the overall composition allowing each element to be clearly delineated and hold pictorial autonomy. Light also imbues a sense of McIntyre's capturing a moment in time. The beautifully random compositions filled with freely dispersed floral and other objects have a sense of delicate movement, of the transitoriness of nature and of the innate beauty in that transitoriness.”
Initially self-taught she has since had private tuition and workshops with artists, Ron Reynolds, Richard Claremont, Jenie Fawkner, Nicholas Chen, and international artists, Ed Praybe, Susan Lichtman, Jennifer Poichinski and Catherine Kehoe.
In March 2023 Kirsty held her second solo exhibition , “Birds of a Feather” at Satch and co gallery in NSW and will participate in two group exhibitions at Grainger gallery, ACT. In 2023, she will be at the Affordable art fair at both Sydney and Melbourne, and the “Bloom” group exhibition opening June 28th at The Weswal gallery