Landscape Plotted and Pieced, 2011
Frank Pottinger RSA was born in Edinburgh in 1932. He lived and worked in the city throughout his life, but served as artist in residence around the UK and in Germany. His abstract sculptures and prints have been exhibited internationally.
Frank Pottinger RSA: 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.