Cameron McIntyre was born in Beaufort, SC, in 1968. He attended the University of South Carolina and the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, where he studied with south realist painter William McCullough. McIntyre moved to the Eastern Shore of Virginia in 1989, and has been painting since then in quiet seclusion, studying, absorbing and interpreting the surrounding rural landscape.

He has gained national recognition as a decoy maker and wood sculptor or primitive bird forms. His work has been in numerous shows and exhibits through the country and has been featured in such publications as Sporting Classics magazine, Ducks Unlimited, Decoy Magazine, Hunting and Fishing Collectables Magazine, as well as the Orvis Catalog and Orvis News magazine.

He has had two one-man shows at the Barrier Island Center. He lives with his wife, Adele, and their two sons on a farm bordering Bullbeggar Creek near New Church, VA.