oil on board, signed and dated '84
framed

Note: Painter, teacher, political cartoonist, born and lived in Stromness, Orkney Isles. MacInnes attended Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, 1939–41 and 1945–7, teachers including Robert Sivell and D M Sutherland. He went on to Head the Art Department at Stromness Academy, becoming Second Master and then Headmaster until retirement. MacInnes was a member of the 47 Group, which included Alberto Morrocco; took part in other mixed shows; and had numerous shows in Orkney, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, notably at the Torrance Gallery. MacInnes was a painter of the landscape and people of Orkney. He was a close friend of George Mackay Brown from childhood and illustrated many of his books and dust covers. After his retirement he carried on painting with even greater zeal, and was preparing for another eagerly awaited exhibition in Edinburgh when, in 1997, he suffered the first of the strokes that crippled and ultimately killed him. For his memorial he leaves us a richly evocative display of paintings on countless Orcadian walls - and far beyond his islands. Eleven of his paintings are held in Scottish public collections. In The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of April 2025, "Cliffs at Yesnaby, Orkney" by Ian MacInnes sold for £2800 (hammer).