Jock MacInnes studied at Glasgow School of Art and then taught there for twenty five years. By 1999, however, demand for his paintings had become so strong that he had to give up this post to commit all his time to painting.
MacInnes describes himself as ‘a modernist at heart’ who has gathered information from both Continental European (Matisse, Braque, Morandi) and English (Nicholson, Scott and Wallis) artists of the early part of the twentieth century. The St Ives school, both in terms of subject matter and technique, has played a particularly formative role in MacInnes’ artistic development.
MacInnes’ work can be found in public and private collections throughout Britain, Europe and the USA.