Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an innovator.He is undoubtedly one of
Scotland's most celebrated architects. His astounding buildings
creatively reinterpreted the past and opened the way for the Modern
Movement. Architecture was his first love, though he was also a highly
accomplished artist and designer of interiors, furniture, metalwork,
glass and textiles. In addition his graphic design work, using nature
and organic plant forms, made him an early exponent of Symbolism and Art
Nouveau. In the later years of his life he produced watercolour
paintings of intense power and subtlety. His extraordinary work is still
regarded today as innovative and modern, and continues to astonish and
delight art lovers everywhere.