Ishbel Macintosh Is an International Artist Who Really Cooks

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Our cover this week, “5 O’clock Meeting with the Light Beings” is by Ishbel Macintosh who has lived around the world and shown at several Hamptons galleries while spending time here as a professional chef. This accomplished painter and former TV host spoke to Dan’s Papers from her home in Brazil, a place she finds as inspiring as the East End.

Ishbel Macintosh at work

A Conversation with Ishbel Macintosh

How long have you considered yourself an artist?

I have been an artist since a very young age and it influenced many forms in my life; fine art, arts and crafts, gardening, interiors, cooking — to me it’s like breathing. I don’t have a “certificate” for art school, but I did attend my mother Brenda Macintosh’s “school of resilience/educational bootcamp” from the age of 2 until I left home at 17. My mother was an art teacher and passionate educator, and protector of Scottish heritage arts, crafts, and literature. She loved storytelling, as do I. She opened my world to so many important things that I do and love to this day.

How long have you been coming to the Hamptons?

Since I was 22 years old. Aside from weekend excursions I was stationed throughout various Hampton villages as a private chef from the late ’80s s until the late ’90s. I loved the quality of ingredients. The vegetable stands and seafood are unparalleled. You can find the best of the best in the Hamptons and it enabled me to enjoy the cooking so much over the years. I also love driving through the tree-shaded lanes of the Hamptons.

Art by Ishbel Macintosh

Who or what inspires your art?

Hieronymus Bosch, the Dutch painter who died in 1516 was also the son of a minister of the church. The resulting imagination that he had is other level, as is his attention to detail. I also love the work of contemporary American artist Alexis Rockman who paints rainforests beautifully. In the Hamptons, the Pollock-Krasner house never fails to be a moving experience as the simple and…

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