The Road to Meikle Seggie

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About the Book: 

My drawings are about what I see in the real world all around me. They are about the magic in all things we recognise as normal. They are about ordinary houses and farm buildings, drainpipes, gutters, chimney pots, windows, doors, washing hanging out to dry, balconies and all forms of useful street furniture.
The road does not concentrate on castles, palaces and cathedrals. It is governed more by small apparently insignificant details and hidden forces, by underground ‘blind’ springs and the ever-changing movements of shorelines, rivers and of moonrises and sunsets.

To travel the road to Meikle Seggie is to undertake any journey which offers unexpected opportunities for intellectual growth and self-discovery.

In the 1970s, Richard Demarco embarked on a series of journeys, starting in Edinburgh, to recover a sense of our living culture in the environments around us. These radiated out across Europe, underpinning the internationalism of this unique Scottish-Italian
artist’s own extraordinary journey.

Forty years later, the journey is renewed with this reproduction of Demarco’s original artwork and his first Meikle Seggie essay, along with a new translation into Italian and a new introduction.

Reviews: 

The Road is Scottish and universal but passionately grounded in love of the particular. Here Demarco articulates a rooted creative response to the growing environmental crisis. From the introduction by DONALD SMITH

About the Author:

RICHARD DEMARCO was born in Edinburgh in 1930. An artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts, he has been one of Scotland’s most influential advocates for contemporary art through his work at the Richard Demarco Gallery and the Demarco European Art Foundation, as well as his professorship at Kingston University in London.