Inspired by Niki de Saint Phalle's assertion that "Nothing is more shocking than joy", Alex McIntyre's work emerges from a place of awe and wonder. She wants to remind you of those moments when you look up and out towards the horizon; when you encounter your own living breath, and your smallness in the enormity of the universe. She hopes this will shift your mental state by inviting you into your body and breath in the present moment.

Alex McIntyre's paintings evoke the sky. In them she explores transitions of light through colour relationships, texture and surface. She paints using a process of experimentation, physicality, construction and destruction. Colour is eroded and re-layered. The paintings find themselves somewhere between felt sense, abstraction, image, surface, gesture and spontaneity.

She says, "Let us commit to radical acts of joy and be awestruck with every waking sense. Then let us share this joy lovingly with each other in gratitude and wonder."