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Mary MacIver

Artist and teacher;

Born: December 1919; Died: October 13, 2012;

MARY MacIver, who has died aged 92, was an accomplished painter whose artistic talent only blossomed after her retirement from the teaching profession.

The widow of the writer, reviewer and poet Hector MacIver, she moved in the most exalted literary and cultural circles, counting the likes of Louis MacNeice and Hugh MacDiarmid as friends.

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