Blackwell

Today's the day ....................... for some Glasgow Style

Not the Commonwealth Games variety - but a preview of the new exhibition that's on at Blackwell - the Arts & Crafts House overlooking Lake Windermere.

The exhibition is entitled - Glasgow Style: Arts & Crafts from 1890-1930. It explores the unique skills of such artists and crafts people as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Talwin Morris, Jessie Marion King, Ernest Archibald Taylor and Margaret and Frances Macdonald - and shows the strength and prominence of Glaswegian Arts and Crafts around the end of the 19th century.

Born at the highly influential Glasgow School of Art and blending together the imagery of the Celtic Revival with influences from Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Movement, the term ‘the Glasgow Style’ was coined and came to represent this distinctive style developed in the west of Scotland.

It's a great little exhibition - and Blackwell is the perfect place for it. It was designed and built by the English architect, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott - who was deeply influenced by all that was going on in Glasgow - at around the same time ......................