Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
(1864 - 1933)
 

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh was an English-born artist who worked in Scotland, and whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s to 1900s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Macdonald_Mackintosh

The Mysterious Garden
1911
Watercolour and ink over pencil on vellum, laid on board
45,1 x 47,7
National Galleries Scotland
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/115533

From about 1900 Macdonald began to produce larger, independent watercolours alongside her craftwork. Here, a figure is seemingly asleep and may be dreaming, while above her stands a row of eight heads or masks which are perhaps part of her dream. The subject may have been inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play The Blue Bird, which was performed in Glasgow in autumn 1910. Also, stylistically it owes much to the work of Aubrey Beardsley and the Dutch artist Jan Toorop, both of whom had a huge impact on Glasgow artists at the time. In 1912 Macdonald exhibited the work alongside two other watercolours in Edinburgh. They were very well received with a reviewer for The Glasgow Herald considering them 'decoratively exotic fantasies born as it were in another sphere'.