Charles Rennie Mackintosh

I live in a vaguely (although not very characterful, it was a shoddily built Mineral Seam Miner's 'two up two down' cottage after all!) Arts and Crafts house...

And I've always loved the work, architectural and creative, of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, as well as his wife, Margaret MacDonald and that of her sister, who's name is lost to me for today, I'm afraid...



So, three tiny pencil drawings which Mr Mackintosh captured swiftly while he was on a sojourn on my beloved Holy Island adorn the chimney breast of my cottage...

Two sketches detail types of small worts and spindly flowers that flourish by the coast there today... The central drawing shows the back of Lindisfarne Castle, where it faces the North Sea, with a dodgy hand-rail picked out in the green that still colours it today, and a small clump of rock-clinging flowers tinted rose-pink...

I also have a few glass lampshades scattered about the place with rose-hued Mackintosh-esque roses thereupon...



I bought these images while on an idyllic stay on Holy Island with all my family, that is my parents, husband and infant son in 1995... They are very dear to me, and I've not seen these pictures really anywhere else...

I consider myself very lucky to have them in my life, depicting a time when we were all together, enjoying the island without so many tourists, once it is cut off by the rising tide from the mainland, and my wild small son roamed free in the little yellow and black go-kart we carted all the way up there with us, squished in the trunk of the family car!