TOBY WEBSTER & APRIL CRICHTON

Glasgow's most cutting-edge creative couple? Probably. But the gallerist and fashion designer are far too busy enjoying work and life to care about stuff like that

- Natasha Radmehr

In St Margaret’s Church in Glasgow’s Southside are five stained-glass windows designed by Gordon Webster. They filter the sun through a patchwork of jewel-toned panes. The celebrated stained-glass artist created hundreds of them in his lifetime; a skill inherited from his father Alf, whose name and work ornament Websters Theatre in the west end. Gordon and Alf are no longer here, but their art still pulses in technicolour. Great art outlives us all.

Not far from the theatre, Gordon's grandson Toby Webster sits across from his wife April Crichton. The kitchen worktop sandwiched between them was hewn from a slab of wood that once resided in Gordon's workshop. Every object in their Victorian terrace reveals a story. And, though they'd challenge this claim, none is quite as compelling as the story of a Glasgow couple whose contribution to the arts spreads far beyond the contours of their home city.

Toby, the founding director of The Modern Institute art gallery and interiors company Rendezvous, and April, the designer who co-founded the fashion brand La Fetiche, met in the late 1980s. April was studying art in Edinburgh, where she shared a flat with Toby’s sister, the tapestry weaver Emma Jo Webster. “Toby and I just got on really well,” recalls April. “We liked music, clubbing, thrifting, going to gigs... He's an incredibly enthusiastic and curious person who likes odd, different things and opens your eyes to the world."