This is an oil painting on galllery-depth cradled panel. The sides are meticulously finished with the background colour so that the painting appears to continue around the sides. This painting is based on a photograph I took of flowers in a lush botanical garden in Barbados called the Flower Forest. The white flowers with their interconnected stems against the dark blue/green background reminds me of stars in a night sky connected together like a constellation.

Clare McIntyre

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Clare McIntyre is a classically-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. The daughter of a professional singer, Clare spent her life around creative energy and the arts. Her combined talents in painting and interior design give her work a unique style that is centred around sensory observations. She is particularly drawn to florals and nature, infusing life into her pieces, and using paint playfully to create light, depth and transparency. Clare loves working with solvent-free oil paint, watercolour and gouache, and has recently taken an interest in experimenting on nonstandard papers and other substrates. Clare began honing her craft as a youth, taking courses at the Art Gallery of Ontario and continued her education as a young adult, earning a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. When Clare earned a degree for interior design at Sheridan College, she found that she could bring artistry to the spaces she designed through impactful focal points and features. Clare now uses this combined background to design fabric and wallpaper. When she isn’t painting in her home studio, she can be found exploring different corners of Toronto, collecting wildflowers with her daughters for their next project, or hunting for vintage picture frames.