Victoria Jewelry Group
Celtic Ring Has Got A Touch Of Glasgow Style
Returning to a Celtic Ring
The last feature on our jewellery website was about Scottish artists Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. On this occasion our attention switches to to Margaret’s sister, Frances, who has inspired a fine-looking celtic ring.
Frances Macdonald, like her sister, displayed at the International Exhibition of Modern Art in Turin. While Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald designed the famous Rose Boudoir, which inspired Ola Gorie, Frances and her husband, artist Herbert McNair, designed their own room interior, A Lady’s Writing Room, including a desk, bookplates and watercolours.
The Macdonald sisters had enrolled at the Glasgow School of Art in 1891 for painting lessons. It’s there that these gifted young women became aquainted with their future husbands. They each grew to become a member of the gang of artists recognized for Glasgow Style, who were members of the Glasgow School. The sisters coupled with a couple of others were known as the trail-blazing Glasgow Girls. In the meantime the 2 married couples were known as the Four or the Spook School.
Whatever name these artists were given, they were particularly gifted and their style and design remains very influential today. You can observe work based on their work by modern-day creative designers nationwide.
Artist’s Symbolism on Celtic Ring
Frances herself used an enormous collection of arty forms and media for her work. Her incomparable style lifted much from Celtic images, which explains why Ola Gorie’s Celtic ring is known as Frances, influenced by this marvelous artist. With her sister, Frances collaborated on graphics, book illustrations, interior planning, metalwork, embroidery, paintings and gesso panels.
As well as Celtic symbolism, Frances really liked the art of William Blake and Aubrey Beardsley. Regrettably, her husband’s family lost their wealth along with an art school in Liverpool where Frances and McNair tutored was shut down. The pair went back to Glasgow where Frances died, aged only 48 in 1921. Regrettably, her husband messed up most of her work.
You can see Frances’ creations and paintings at the Hunterian Art Gallery in the University of Glasgow and at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. Elsewhere in Scotland you can find exhibits at the National Museums of Scotland, in England at the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Museum, Liverpool. In this last museum, the McNairs’ A Lady’s Writing Room, Turin 1902, has been re-created.
Take a glance at our jewelry website for a taste of Frances’ intricately beautiful work. Ola Gorie’s Celtic ring pays tribute to this renowned artist.
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