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Ronnie Ireland will be talking about Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh has become, as with many creative artists, much loved only after his death. Developing in the prosperous Glasgow of the late 19th century he developed an individual signature style, blending Art Nouveau, a love of natural forms and traditional Scottish vernacular architecture. Also a beautiful draughtsman, he spent his later years drawing and painting in watercolour, mainly in the south of France when architectural work dried up.

We will look at his place in the architecture of the time, as well as the ‘Mackintosh Revival’ that grew in the 1960’s to the ‘Mackintosh’ souvenir industry trading on his style today.