As a landscape artist living in the flat lands of East Anglia, my inspiration comes largely from the Norfolk and Suffolk marshes and coastal estuaries that surround me. I am drawn to the strong shapes, lines and patterns formed by the complex interplay of water and land in the landscape. My work attempts to portray the vast horizons of this landscape; I use diagonal lines and carefully positioned verticals to guide the viewer’s eye through the landscape and into the distance. 

My work acts as a visual diary, in particular of walks taken. Smaller works in mixed media are formed and they, along with memories, are developed into larger works enabling further exploration of colour, shape, texture and allowing me to emphasise the geometry I see in the landscape. I work largely in oil and oil and cold wax on canvas. My paintings are built up in many layers and I like to scratch back to reveal some of those earlier layers.

Caroline Mackintosh is a contemporary landscape painter living and working in Suffolk. Her semi-abstract style captures the shapes and lines formed in the landscape, rather than a literal representation of place. Her inspiration comes largely from the marshes and estuaries that surround her, but also from travels further afield.

Having studied to foundation level at Norwich Art School (now Norwich University of the Arts) and for a BA in Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, Caroline lived in Ireland for several years, before returning to England to train as a primary school teacher. Caroline later specialised in teaching art in local primary schools and trained other teachers in the delivery of the art curriculum. In 2021 Caroline gave up teaching to focus entirely on her own art practice.

Caroline was shortlisted for The Sir John Hurt Art Prize in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. She exhibits at galleries in Norfolk and Suffolk and has exhibited this year in The Society of Women Artists 163rd Annual Exhibition and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London.