PAUL MARTIN
 

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The exhibition Where Echoes Rest was hosted at Dalkeith Palace, a place that is close to where Paul Martin lived and worked. The Palace is set in extensive parkland - some of it landscaped, some of it landscape - and ancient woodlands dating back a thousand years or more. Full length windows in the gallery spaces overlook this parkland, or perhaps allow the landscape into the gallery itself, making Dalkeith Palace the perfect setting to display Paul Martin's explorations into the mysteries of the natural world.

The seat of the Dukes of Buccleuch from the mid 17th century until 1914, Dalkeith Palace is one of the earliest classical buildings in Scotland, and also one of the finest. Indeed it was here, rather than the somewhat dilapidated Holyroodhouse, that George IV chose to stay on his visit to Edinburgh in 1822, the first visit by a reigning monarch north of the border since the Act of Union, during which George presented himself to his Scottish subjects as both king and clan chief, resplendent in full highland dress (and 'flesh-coloured pantaloons' to keep his legs warm, although David Wilkie's official portrait omits that particular detail). Modelled on William of Orange's Paleis Het Loo in the Netherlands, the Palace as we see it today was built during the first decade of the 18th century, though it incorporates large sections of an earlier mediaeval castle, the notorious 'Lion's Den' of the Douglas family.​

Please visit their website for further details: www.dalkeithcountrypark.co.uk

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