Andy McClintock

Beginning life as a scientist, I am a largely self taught artist who has been working for thirty years in painting, sculpture and landscape gardening and increasingly blurring the boundaries between all three areas. I am passionate about my work but, unlike science, it is not informed by an explicit agenda or vision but rather relies on hands-on creative process to uncover aesthetics, emotions, and ideas to which I would otherwise have no access.
Andy would like to acknowledge Ann McClintock (fused glass) and Lanark Glass ( etched glass) used in his sculptures.

Major influences include Warhol, Coons, Hockney, Giger, Gaudi, Ian Hamilton Finlay and my drawing teacher and provocative influence, the late William Bower.

I have exhibited in galleries throughout Scotland, and in London, France, USA, Denmark and Canada, and have worked as a resident artist in Paris and Copenhagen.

Public and corporate collections include:
Millennium sculpture, Ealing, London
Sculpture for Tennis club in Barbizon, France
The former St Andrews College of Education, Glasgow
Glasgow University
Boots Plc
SEPA
South Lanarkshire Council

Local collections include table and chairs for Chatters Restaurant, Dunoon, and Monks and Nun for an ex-monastery near Campbeltown.

I have undertaken projects and run workshops in schools, prisons and community art groups, written art criticism including a regular column on art in Glasgow(1989-91), curated exhibitions, and set up and ran a small community gallery.

I have over 500 work in private collections world wide.

Caol Ruadh Sculptures

Spires dance in the forest,
Twisted,
Irregular, forms,
Concrete and glass,
Embraced by irises,
Merging with fractal ferns.

"My work is about blurring the boundaries between landscape gardening, sculpture
and painting, with a dash of science and magic for good measure. For me
creating a garden or landscape is a form of sculpture or shaping living and
inorganic forms of which the constructed objects are simply one component.
Paintings describing landscape can also be reset in landscape encapsulated in
wax or glass. Playful intermingling of the "rational" and the "irrational" and
exploring so called "good" and "bad" taste are particular interests."
In addition to Caol Ruadh, I am a member of Cowal Open Studios and can be visited by appointment throughout the year or at our open weekend from from 21 to 24 September 2012 www.cowalopenstudios.co.uk