Typically gravitating towards dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Scottish artist Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red in his latest 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.

In 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 populated 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.”

The exhibition runs until May 30 in Folkestone, UK. Find more from McIntosh on Instagram.