James MacIntyre was born in Coleraine in 1926. He is a self-taught artist who has worked professionally as a painter and sculptor since 1946.
In 1956 he was awarded the CEMA Travelling Scholarship which took him to Paris for the first time. CEMA – Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts – was the precursor to the Arts Council. In 1958 he moved to London where he worked for some years as a free-lance book illustrator and graphic designer.
MacIntyre`s work has been exhibited regu
larly over many years in Belfast and he has had one-man exhibitions at the Arts Council Gallery Belfast, the Cardiff Gallery, the Dublin Painters` Gallery, the Reese Palley Gallery in New Jersey, the Aisling Gallery in New York and at the Ulster Office in London.
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