The Arts In Berwick -- Visual Arts -- Painting
Mackintosh on Holy Island


The Scottish architect, designer and exponent of Art-Nouveau Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) first came Holy Island on his honeymoon in 1900.

In the next few years he returned many times to make a series of flower studies. Some of the same geometric plant-motifs that appear on his buildings in Glasgow are found in these watercolours of flowers he did on Holy Island.

In Berwick itself, other Art-Nouveau inspirations can be seen in the flamboyant glazed entrance to the Brewers'Arms pub and some decoration on Church Street Police station.


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