Patricia Frances Semple (3 July 1939 – 2 May 2021) was a Scottish landscape artist and teacher, known for a ' dramatic and visionary style'[1] Pat Semple was born in Bromley, Kent, but her parents soon moved back to Scotland, where she spent the rest of her life.
Her father was in the merchant navy, away at sea much of the time, and her mother spent periods in a nursing home, succumbing to tuberculosis when Semple was 11 years old.
In 1958, she studied painting and drawing at the Edinburgh College of Art, alongside artists John Bellany and Barbara Rae.
Her teachers included John Maxwell, Anne Redpath, Robin Phillipson, Denis Peploe and Derek Clarke.
They married in 1992, and although they later lived separately, are said to have remained friends, and when he died in 2014, Semple collected his MBE for services to art, granted by the Queen at Holyrood.