Art Sales + Services: Kara McIntosh Artist Closing Reception

FEATURED ARTIST SHOW | Kara McIntosh Gathering Edges
ON VIEW: January 15 – 31, 2026
CLOSING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 29, 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Artist in Attendance

The Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Art Sales + Services is pleased to present Gathering Edges, a collection of new paintings and textiles by Canadian artist Kara McIntosh

Kara McIntosh’s latest works explore the intimate relationship between self and landscape through expressive paintings and hooked textiles. Blending intuition, memory, and material experimentation, her works dissolve boundaries between body and environment, inviting viewers into a contemplative, sensory experience of the Canadian wilderness.

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About the Artist:

Kara McIntosh is a contemporary Canadian multi-disciplinary artist who explores the many layers, rhythms and patterns of the natural landscape in an abstracted style. Her creative practice begins with curiosity about the multi-faceted contexts of self, place and community. Creating from somewhere deep within, Kara’s immersive process of observation and response is intuitive and closely mirrors her own path of self discovery.

A hallmark of Kara’s work is her unique mark-making which is rendered in loose impasto oil paint and/or hooked fibres such as wool and silk. She works to capture connections within the natural world, collect moments, suggest an essence of place, tell a story. Kara investigates in different mediums, at times combining them to both reference the textures of the landscape, but also to push the boundaries of what inspires underfoot, at eye level and above.

While the work may be informed by specific sites, Kara encourages the viewer to engage and reflect on their own experiences. She uses bright and often unexpected colours, bringing them into her natural compositions to offer a refreshing and abstracted take on traditional landscape matter.

Kara lives near Ottawa, ON with her family and works full-time from her studio located in The Tremont building in Collingwood. Her work can be found in many private and corporate collections in Canada, the US, Europe and Australia.

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PLEASE NOTE: This event has been postponed to January 29, 2026 due to inclement weather.