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Biography
MacKinnon was born in Newcastle, Co. Down, Northern Ireland and trained at the Slade School of Art in London from 1918-24 under Henry Tonks. She then moved to Paris where she had two exhibitions before returning to London. She had her first one-man show at the Goupil Gallery in 1928 and also during that year met her future husband, Rupert Granville Fordham, also a painter. In later life she travelled extensively throughout Europe, painting in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Greece and Switzerland. However it was in France that she mostly resided and unsurprisingly much of her subject matter was located there. She specialised in urban views and landscapes. Her forte lay in depicting scenes with subtle exaggerations of colour tones to lend the results a mystical, fantasy-like, but eye-pleasing quality. |
