Inverleith House Gallery Talk
Richard Demarco and Sandy Moffat discuss the work of Mary MacIver
Sunday 1st March, 2pm, Inverleith House, Lower Ground Floor Gallery
Richard Demarco and Sandy Moffat will be discussing the work of Mary MacIver. Richard Demarco C.B.E. is an artist, gallerist and promoter of the visual and performing arts. Alexander (Sandy) Moffat O.B.E. is an artist and former head of painting at Glasgow School of Art. The visionary paintings of Mary MacIver, influenced by events in her life and a keen knowledge of poetry, myth and legend have long been admired by fellow artists. The current exhibition at Inverleith House of thirteen works on paper made by MacIver in her studio in Edinburgh last year takes its title from the book “Pilgrim Souls”, which Mary wrote about life with her late husband, the poet Hector MacIver. Mary began painting in 1981 after retirement and, as she approaches her 90th year, continues to paint “the spiritual side of life and the symbolic” with an extraordinary vitality.
Free; booking advised but not essential. Please contact Amy Dennis adennis@rbge.org.uk / 0131 2482971.
Image credit:
Mary MacIver
Mad March Hares, 2008
Acrylic on paper
Image courtesy of the artist
Hayley Tompkins – Autobuilding
Mary MacIver – Pilgrim Souls
Until 19 April 2009
Inverleith House
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Inverleith Place/Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR
Telephone 0131 248 2971/2943
Email ihouse@rbge.ac.uk
Web www.rbge.org.uk/inverleith-house
Inverleith House is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5.30pm (3.30pm in February).
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