Caroline Mackintosh

Caroline Mackintosh SWA is a contemporary landscape painter living and working in Suffolk. Her inspiration comes largely from the Norfolk and Suffolk marshes and coastal estuaries that surround her, but also from travels further afield.

Drawn to the strong shapes, lines and patterns formed by the complex interplay of water and land, her work attempts to portray the vast horizons and expansive nature of these landscapes. Working mainly in oil and cold wax, and lying somewhere between figurative and abstraction, her paintings are concerned with capturing the form and contours of the land rather than a literal representation of place.

She studied to foundation level at Norwich Art School and took a BA in development studies at the University of East Anglia. She lived in southern Ireland for several years before returning to England to train as a primary school teacher, later specialising in teaching art.