Scottish painter Andrew McIntosh paints realistic structures with fantastical interiors, merging the real with the surreal. His juxtapositioning makes for an uneasy setting. Rundown buildings in London open up to reveal dreamlike interiors, and deserted house-trailers carry within them the cosmos itself.
“Born in the Highlands of Scotland in 1979, I recall drawing from an early age; obsessively drawing and re-drawing pictures, trying to achieve perfect scale and interesting ways of devising images,” says the painter.
“My paintings are an exercise in attraction,” he explains. “Through them I am constantly searching for new ways of communicating with the viewer. By seducing them with my imagery, I try to create a new visual language with the power to pique their attention and make them stop to ask: why?”
His mystical creations push forward the idea that there’s always more than what meets the eye. Inevitably, they call for introspection, suggesting that even the blandest of people carries within him a rising sun.
