Charles Rennie Mackintosh was not only a great architect and designer but also an artist. Having graduated from the Glasgow School of Art where he met his wife Margaret McDonald.
	Mackintosh's striking style can also be seen in his paintings, as this watercolour of Fritillaria shows. Mackintosh's famous squares can be seen on the petals of the flowers and his signature between the stems is in keeping with his design styles.
Mackintosh's early paintings and drawings between the period of 1892 and 1896 present decorative and symbolic stylisations of plant forms, flooded with colour. For example, The Harvest Moon (1892). Unfortunately less than a dozen of these images have survived.
	By 1923 Mackintosh's continuing failure to establish a more substantial design practice or painting career lead to leave to Britain for France to concentrate on landscape painting.