Semple, Pat, RSW
1939 – 2021
Born in Kent to a Scottish father and a Welsh mother, she was brought up in Kintyre and lost her mother to TB when Semple was just 11 years old. Educated at St Margaret's Convent and Lasswade Secondary School in Edinburgh, she trained at Edinburgh College of Art under John Maxwell, Anne Redpath, Denis Peploe and Derek Clarke who became her second husband in 1992. She also carried out postgraduate studies at the college. She married her ECA contemporary the sculptor and teacher Frank Pottinger RSA in 1970, the couple sharing a love of abstraction. They divorced in 1989. Elected RSW in 1987.
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