Tag Archives: Glasgow

WHERE THE STONES SPEAK – Author’s journey to Scotland

Shades of Scottish creativity Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newarthill, Tipton, Dalkeith and Gretna Green. Welcome where creativity is able to manifest itself in places full of history, but also in remote villages wrapped in the scent of salt. Among the many possibilities of a trip to Scotland https://www.visitscotland.com/, there is a special one, but to live it you will need to …

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IN DIFFERENT MEDIA – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, one of the key figures in the emergence of the ‘Glasgow Style’ in the 1890s

Glasgow style and Viennese Art Nouveau  English painter, illustrator and decorator operating in Scotland, she is also remembered for her important interior designs, made with her husband. She was born in Tipton, near Wolverhampton (metropolitan district of the English West Midlands) on a day of November 1864. The beginning of her artistic career reflects experimental features. Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh‘s https://www.posterlounge.com/artists/margaret-macdonald-mackintosh/ …

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THIS IS THE LIFE – Amy Macdonald, the singer-songwriter who put a fruit of her creativity online for free

Doing what you like, without praying to anyone Francis Healy, frontman of Travis, is her greatest source of inspiration. Born in 1987, she achieved international success with her first album. For the use she makes of her own voice, she has been brought up to Alison Moyet. She is a Scottish singer-songwriter from Glasgow. 5 years after the last album, …

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PRINCES, LORDS AND HONEST MEN – Travel Scotland, where you will wink at your small faults

Better be the lucky man, than the lucky man’s son Fascinating ruins of a fortress that has its roots in 1,000 years of history https://www.visitscotland.com/. There is the reconstruction of a catapult, and you could find a bagpiper. A splendid combination of history and natural beauty, near Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/urquhart-castle/ continues to be heavily photograph, but you will …

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