Description
‘Woman with Dog’
Original Acrylic on Wood
Image H 30 x W 30 cm
Frame H … x W… cm, 1 cm wide, matt black, satin finish
Collect from gallery £500
Including UK delivery £550
Featuring in our Winter Exhibition 2026
‘Winter Curiosities’ opens Saturday November 7
Hilke MacIntyre grew up in North Germany where she studied at the College of Art & Architecture in Kiel. In 1996 she moved to Scotland where she divides her time between painting, printmaking and producing ceramic reliefs.
Hilke’s work uses a simplified figurative style with strong abstract pattern. Influences include ‘primitive’ art, early 20th Century European art and contemporary design. Hilke exhibits throughout Great Britain and has been selected several times for the annual show of the Royal Scottish Academy. Amongst other commissions her linocuts have been used to illustrate publications for the Neuk Musical Festival and the National Youth Choir of Scotland.
‘When painting, I enjoy colour and the freedom in the process of creating an image. I use acrylic paint, which dries fast, so I can quickly change and move things around.
For a painting I never have a plan. I might start with a table scene and end up with birds in a garden. Or I might have the idea of a yellow painting and end up with a blue one. Painting is a dialogue for me. I add something to the canvas that affects the image in a certain way, to which I have to respond. As well certain shapes, colors and patterns that occur on the canvas evoke images in me. These images then go onto the canvas and the process continues. Slowly, hopefully, something emerges on the canvas that gives me a direction to follow and to finish. Overpainting and working in layers is an essential part of my art. I use a lot of stripes, dots and scratching into wet paint. This creates complex, unpredictable colours and tones because the previous layer can shine through. As well it sometimes allows earlier imagery still to be detected.
I mostly paint on wood panels because they have a sturdier surface to scratch on and I like the feeling of putting paint on wood. Recently I have begun to carve with my woodcutting tools into the wood and into coloured areas. Another layer and very interesting! I will explore this further.’
The limited edition ceramic reliefs are made in editions of 50. An original design is formed from clay from which a plaster mould is made into which new slabs of soft clay can be pressed to et an identical relief. After a first lower firing in a kiln, the reliefs are individually glazed so that each looks slightly different. They are then fired again at a high temperature. Each tile is numbered and signed.
“My linocuts are original prints. I print the linocuts and woodcuts directly from the carved plates on an old cast iron Harrild Press in my studio in Arncroach using Lawrence oil based high quality inks and acid free Zerkall printmaking paper. Because the inking and pressing of the plates is done by hand every single print differs slightly from the others of that edition. I usually print in editions of 35 or 50. All prints are signed and have an edition number.”
