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Tippy McIntosh

Tippy-McIntosh

December 2022 Artist of the Month

Using time of day, light, atmosphere, and music as inspiration for her compositions, McIntosh has ventured onto new surfaces, painting sometimes bold and sometimes impressionistic color on exotic wood veneers. By following the grain of the wood veneer, and using color to highlight the different grain patterns, her compositions make a clear contemporary statement. The veneers are then broken into shapes along natural grain lines, carefully arranged and mounted to add the tension and play of negative space, and finally framed for presentation.

With a BFA from the College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati, she continues to apply her formal education in printmaking and painting to oils, mixed media, drypoints, pen and ink illustration, and encaustics.

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“Great Sand Dunes, Aerial View” is painted on Mappa Burl Veneer: Mappa burl wood veneer has wonderful color combinations that often varies from light tan to a beautiful gold with dark red/brown burl pockets. Originally from Western Europe, mappa is the only species of poplar that develops this rare type of burl formation.
“Chasing the Sunset” is painted on Raindrop Redwood Veneer: Among the largest and tallest trees on earth, the redwood produces a rich, warm, inviting veneer that’s as impressive as the tree. Uniformly deep reddish-brown, the grain in quarter cut veneer is beautifully striped or figured by exquisite markings.
“Yellow Bearded Iris” is painted on Paldao Veneer: Found in the Philippines, the Paldao grows with a remarkable buttress encircling the lower trunk, creating 40′ diameter growths which remote tribes believed held spirits. This is a beautiful veneer: a grey-brown background streaked with highly decorative dark stripes.
“Approaching Autumn” is painted on Angelstep Walnut Veneer: Angelstep is a figure pattern found in lumber cut from trees that have twisted trunks, and is common in maples and walnuts. The figure on the board is characterized by short, delicate curls progressing up the board on a tangent, starting and ending out of nowhere, a spiritual spiral staircase.