Frank Pottinger RSA

Frank Pottinger RSA (1932-2022) was a renowned sculptor and printmaker. Trained at Edinburgh College of Art, where he graduated in 1963, he visited Turkey and Greece on a travelling scholarship before returning to teach in Edinburgh, Fife and Aberdeen. He later became a full-time artist and won a number of awards including a Scottish Arts Council Award; William J Macaulay Award and an IBM Award. He was also an elected member of the RSA and SSA.

Frank worked both in printmaking and sculpture, with his sculptures mainly larger wooden pieces or smaller scale ceramic works, generally abstract in style. He has been an artist in residence in various places in the UK and Germany and has exhibited internationally. He was a regular exhibitor at Compass Gallery, Glasgow throughout his career and his work is held in both private and public collections including The Hunterian Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow; Paisley Art Gallery and Dundee University.

"There is a vernacular theme in my work and it is one in which I allow the widest possible interpretation of the word. In that respect I have a notion that in landscape, music, artefacts and dialect speech, categories however familiar, there exist subtle affinities of form. The forms which are developed from those connections I attempt to express in sculptures and prints, and the finished work may sometimes involve both." Frank Pottinger RSA.