Professor Richard Demarco, HRSA, RSW, SSA

Richard Demarco was born in 1930 in Edinburgh. He has had innumerable exhibitions in his career spanning over four decades as an artist.

As an artist, he is represented in over 1500 collections both public and private including the National Gallery of Modern Art of Scotland, the V&A Museum and the National Gallery of Lithuania, the Museum and the civic art galleries of Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

His theme is landscape and seascape on “the Road to Meikle Seggie” the road that links the roman world with that of the Celts.

“His work has changed considerably in the last few years; it has become more open, a little austere perhaps.
But he has not entirely relinquished that gift for linking a strongly patterned foreground, searchingly drawn with more distant forms. This is an expression of the pleasure he feels in contrasting natural forms with the man made.
This sort of thing demands good draughtsmanship and power of organization. Demarco has both, as well as a more important gift – that of the ordinary, the commonplace, personality and significance. In other words he adds something of himself to what he portrays, as indeed does every good artist.

It is a case of thinking with pencil, pen or brush. This is what we see in the drawings of the closes, which I find Fascinating, in those done in Ireland and the spacious prospects of Edinburgh that are rich with the sense of passing time.

This is art, not just topography.”

F W Fenton Northern Art Critic

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