Typically gravitating toward dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Scottish artist Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red in a new body of work. The crimson paintings continue McIntosh’s otherworldly landscapes that cast familiar forms like mountains and valleys in a strange, uncanny light. Glowing orbs float among the craggy terrain and veil the scenes in mystery.

“These works sit somewhere between memory and invention—familiar landscapes interrupted by something I don’t fully understand,” the artist says.

a red landscape painting by Andrew McIntosh with mountains and small glowing orbs“Whitney” (2026), oil on linen, 170 x 130 centimeters

On view at School Gallery, these bold pieces comprise the artist’s solo exhibition, I Hope This Transmission Finds You Soon. Evoking alien communication and the unknowns that surround us, even in recognizable spaces, the show draws on Cormac McCarthy’s 1985 novel Blood Meridian, a Gothic Western rife with violence and an unyielding desire for dominance.

The gallery offers insight into the exhibition with an apt quote from the book:

The truth about the world … is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance be populate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tent show whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

I Hope This Transmission Finds You Soon is on view through May 30 in Folkestone, U.K. Find more from McIntosh on Instagram.

a red landscape painting by Andrew McIntosh with mountains and small glowing orbs“K2” (2026), oil on linen, 38 x 43 centimeters

a red landscape painting by Andrew McIntosh with mountains and small glowing orbs“Gasherbrum” (2026), oil on linen, 38 x 43 centimeters

a red landscape painting by Andrew McIntosh with mountains and small glowing orbs“Matterhorn” (2026), oil on board, 20 x 15 centimeters

a red landscape painting by Andrew McIntosh with mountains and small glowing orbsDetail of “Whitney” (2026)

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