Author: Irene Houston

In June 1913 Mackintosh’s partnership with Honeyman Keppie dissolved owing to lack of work, but also as a result of increasing disagreement with his fellow partners. Charles became depressed and together with Margaret moved to Suffolk.

In was here that Mackintosh produced some of his finest pencil and watercolour paintings of flowers. Not only were they exquisitely drawn – but they were botanically accurate. Read more →

Earlier on in his career in 1896, Mackintosh was to meet a woman who was to exert an enormous influence on his professional life.
She was known as Miss Catherine (Kate) Cranston,  a local Glasgow business woman with a firm belief in temperance. She came up with the idea for a series of ‘art tearooms’. Read more →