Margaret Macdonald, born in 1865, was a Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the “Glasgow Style” during the 1890s. 

Margaret studied at the Glasgow School of Art where she worked in a variety of media, including metalwork, embroidery and textiles. 

In 1900 Margaret married Charles Rennie Mackintosh that began a new era of collaboration between them that would later spread throughout the world. 

Her most dynamic works are large gesso panels made for the interiors of tearooms and private residences that she designed with her husband. 

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’s best known works include the gesso panel ‘Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowood, which formed part of the decorative scheme for the Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms, and ‘Opera of the Winds’.