Alice and I met when we were studio next door neighbors at Redux Contemporary Art Center for years and have been working together in the years since. Spending the morning with Alice always leaves my cup full and my cheeks tired from both smiling and laughing. Highly recommend her.
Memories of a magical night on 11/1 with the Coastal Community Foundation at Garden & Gun headquarters in downtown Charleston celebrating my 2020 Griffith-Reyburn Lowcountry Artist of the Year Award…. it was incredible having so many special and supportive people in one room. Big Thank You to everyone who came! xx
A look at my newest painting for receiving the 2022 Griffith-Reyburn Lowcountry Artist of the Year Award through the Coastal Community Foundation. I proposed a 3' x 3' painting of the downtown charleston area for the grant/award and as the months went by, the idea kept getting bigger in my mind... fast forward to August when I had a 5' x 5' panel delivered to my studio and thought "Wow. That's a bit bigger than I thought it would be." ha.
This is the most detailed "map painting" that I've ever done and I loved getting absorbed in the details of my favorite city.
This painting of downtown Charleston is an acrylic painting on wood panel, finished with a shiny coat of resin and custom framed in teak. Image above of it hanging in the Garden & Gun offices at the (magical) Award Reception last week.
painting title: "Southern Charm"
size: 60 x 60
* currently available for purchase - feel free to contact me for details or to arrange to see the painting.
Process pics featuring my sweet apprentices all along the way and ending in Garden & Gun on installation day….
NEW! Prints now available of this painting HERE.
In various sizes: 12x12, 18x18, 24x24, 36x36, and 60x60.
Locally printed and each one has a hand painted signature in the corner in white acrylic.
Can’t wait to celebrate and meet as many of my collectors and fellow art lovers in person as possible!
To formally RSVP through the Coastal Community Foundation follow this LINK
I’m honored to be featured in the current edition of Carolina Muse magazine!
A painting on a skate deck featuring Sullivan’s and IOP that was part of a group exhibition at Miller Gallery in downtown Charleston in 2019.
This is a gorgeous mag featuring all types of artists with ties to the Carolinas. My work is not only on the front cover, but the back cover too - and a beautiful speed on the inside pages, paired with moving poetry.
This inspiring magazine is filled with all kinds of arts: photography, poetry, fine art, and the digital version even includes video of music and dance and spoken word.
Flip through the digital version HERE.
This is a grant given to a lowcountry artist each year by the Coastal Community Foundation. Ill be creating a large map painting of the peninsula - and hopefully a few other smaller peices that tie in - and having a show/celebration somewhere downtown in late fall of this year.
Stay tuned for details - and if you haven’t already, sign up for my newsletter to make sure you don’t miss the invite!
Here’s a link to the press release article: Lowcountry Artist of the Year
In August 2020, i had my first solo show at Redux in Gallery 1056. I created a body of work of map paintings based on some of my favorite places around the Charleston area. Some of the places highlighted include: the Stono River, the Cooper River, Johns Island, and Folly Beach.
I just completed a series of watercolor drawings to be used as part of the design in table cards, the welcome sign and the seating chart for a rehearsal dinner.
A dozen 5”x 7” watercolor paintings of pelagic fish (below) will be scanned and used as one side of the table cards at the dinner (the other side will be the number) and later, the originals will hang as art in the family’s beach house.
Here are a few process pics of the tiger shark painting coming to life…
This 8”x 10” painting (of the groom’s sportfish) was used as part of the welcome sign for guests….
Earlier this year, I was commissioned to do a watercolor marsh painting to be used as part of a wedding suite. The bride wanted a washy, earth toned marsh scene to match her Boone Hall wedding. The 8x 1 0 painting was printed on the backs of the invites (and could be a framed print for all the guests!) and the original hangs in the newlyweds’ home!
Great idea - and so much fun working with these girls!
For a group exhibition at the Miller Gallery (in Charleston, SC), a dozen local artist were invited to paint skateboards based on any sort of musical inspiration.
After much debate (oh, the endless possibilities!)… I decided to use the Crosby, Stills, & Nash song, “Southern Cross” - a song that conjures adventure vibes, being on the water, sailing, and traveling. Drawing from my current exploration of coastal maps, I painted the Intercoastal Waterway as its runs by Sullivan’s Island and the Isle of Palms, SC. These barrier islands fit perfectly onto the shape of the skate deck with the ICW running the length of it, a symbol of travel by water.
Opening reception for “Summer Sessions” at the Miller Gallery
Charleston, SC
August 24th, 2019
“SOUTHERN CROSS” / acrylic paint on birchwood skate deck, coated in epoxy resin
From beginning to end, many layers of acrylic and a makeshift epoxy station later, this was such a fun project, and I was honored and excited to be included in the show!
Thank You to Miller Gallery!
“Community”
(2) 24” x 48” panels + frame
acrylic with epoxy finish, custom teak frame
Considering the community structure and interconnectivity of working out of Redux, as well as the dynamic nature of being a part of the greater creative community in Charleston, how is your work influenced by these immediate surroundings? How are elements of community, Charleston, and Redux portrayed in your work?
To celebrate this sense of community and my evolution as an artist, I would like to create a painting that integrates so many pieces of my life, both figuratively and literally, and also represents exactly where I am in my painting evolution. I would like to create a diptych of a map that shows the places (and people) that I frequent the most in the Charleston area, a continuation in my lowcountry aerial explorations, but with a more personal spin.
Check out this article in Art Mag that discusses how 12 different local artist’s (including me!) work relates to the subject of a “Bird’s Eye Views” Two of my new waterway paintings were included : )
link to article ——> “Bird’s Eye Views”
link to current Art Mag issue ——> Winter 2019 edition
“Lighthouse Creek” 30 x 30 acrylic on wood panel
“Charleston Harbor mini” (2) 6” x 8” acrylic on birch panel
“Charleston Harbor” 20” x 30”. acrylic and oil stick on wood panel
“Bermudaful” - 25 x 25 - acrylic and oil stick on wood panel
This Monday, February 4th from 6:00 - 8:30 I’ll be teaching a valentine card-making workshop at Redux Contemporary Art Center! I’ll be bringing all kinds of unique and fun materials, from fabrics and ribbons (I hoard them) to fancy paper, paints and pens…
To sign up, go to: http://reduxstudios.org/learn/ and look under February class listings for my name!
Feel free to bring drinks (BYOB for 21+) and snacks and come ready to to be crafty and have fun!
Follow me on Instagram ( ——> @gretmackintosh) for more details and to enter!!!
This fall, Garden & Gun’s International Sporting Excursion was held in England, and like last year, I helped create the place cards for the finale dinner at Lucknam Park. The theme this year being British-inspired: phonebooths, the Union Jack, roses, pheasants, horses, and tea time were the focus.
Here are some shots of the table scape at the dinner:
Here are some pictures of the in-progress place cards from the first sketches in my studio at Redux to calligraphy by Page Palmer….
In September I did a series of 40 small watercolor paintings that were used as place cards at an event in Italy at the Lo Sparviere vineyard that Garden&Gun hosted.
Here are some images of the watercolor pieces pre-calligrapher.....
And here are some pictures (post-calligrapher for the names!) from the place cards at the event...
Butterflies as a lifelong motif in his work....
For Boys and Girls
1989-1992
Untitled
2001
The Four Elements (Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, Green and Blue)
2005
Midas and the Infinite
2008
