Walberswick : Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Rennie Mackintosh - architect, designer and art nouveau artist.

In June 1913 Mackintosh's partnership with Honeyman Keppie was dissolved, partly owing to lack of work, but also as a result of increasing disagreement with his fellow partners. By 1914 Charles Rennie Mackintosh was in despair of ever receiving recognition in Glasgow and he and Margaret moved to Walberswick on the Suffolk coastline. It was here that Charles Rennie Mackintosh produced some of his finest and most exquisite pencil and watercolour paintings of flowers. Not only were they exquisitely drawn, but they were botanically accurate.

Charles and Margaret moved to Chelsea soon afterward, It was in London that Mackintosh became a successful freelance textile designer.

In 1915 they settled in Chelsea in London, where his flower paintings developed in the form of still life compositions. For the next few years, Mackintosh attempted to resume practice as an architect and designer.

·	He designed work for leading textile companies, including Sexton of Belfast.

·	A great deal of his work was produced for William Foxton, London who specialised in avant garde design.

·	The textile designs he produced at this time for the Dug-Out Tea Room in Glasgow and the dramatic interiors for Bassett-Lowke's house in Northampton show him working in a bold new style of decoration, using primary colours and geometric motifs.

It was an output of extraordinary vitality and originality which went virtually unheeded in England.

n 1923, the Mackintoshes left London for the South of France where Mackintosh finally gave up all thought of architecture and devoted himself entirely to painting landscapes. He died in London, of cancer, on 10 December 1928.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh is Scotland’s most famous architect and designer. His art nouveau legacy can be found in numerous Scottish buildings, furniture and interior design, as well as drawings and paintings.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh moved to Walberswick in Suffolk to seek new inspiration in drawing and painting. He then moved to London and developed his painting style.

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