A loch-side village

Robert Burns was born in Edinburgh, and attended the Glasgow School of Art, at the same time as Charles Rennie Mackintosh. His drawing Natura Naturans, executed in 1885 for The Evergreen, was one of the earliest examples of Art Nouveau in Scotland. With a passion for Celtic myth and legend, he exhibited at the Glasgow Institute, The Royal Scottish Academy and the Vienna Secession. Elected President of the Society of Scottish Artists and appointed Head of Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art in 1908, in later life Burns turned to landscape painting, capturing the mystical beauty of what was around him.