Mary Potter Art
Mary Potter, OBE was an English painter whose best-known work uses a restrained palette of subtle colors. After studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, Potter began her career, exhibiting in London by the early 1920s. From the 1950s, her work became increasingly abstract and she gained wider notice. Born Mary Attenborough in Beckenham, she upset her parents by choosing painting from her many talents. While at Slade, she was awarded first prize for portrait painting and a place in the New English Art Club exhibition. She then decided that she was working to a formula and ceremonially burned all her portraits. Mary, later, married writer Stephen Potter and with two children, continued to paint as she wished. It was while living by the Thames in Chiswick from 1927 that she began to dabble with the watery vision which she would explore for the rest of her life. An early member of The London Group, Mary Potter also showed allegiance to the Seven and Five Society. In 1951, the Potter family moved to Aldeburgh, and it was this Suffolk fishing town that was to provide the inspiration for her finest art. After her divorce in 1955, her great friendship with the founders of the Aldeburgh Festival, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, led to them swapping houses for six years. This was so that she could paint overlooking the sea from Crag House. During her isolation, she painted to ever greater acclaim by paring down her vision, thinning her paint, blurring outlines and abolishing the horizon line.
20th Century Mary Potter Art
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20th Century Mary Potter Art
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20th Century Mary Potter Art
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20th Century Mary Potter Art
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20th Century Mary Potter Art
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20th Century Mary Potter Art
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20th Century Mary Potter Art
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1980s Modern Mary Potter Art
Canvas, Oil, Board
1970s Abstract Mary Potter Art
Oil, Board
1930s Impressionist Mary Potter Art
Canvas, Oil, Plywood
2010s Contemporary Mary Potter Art
Canvas, Acrylic
Late 19th Century Victorian Mary Potter Art
Canvas, Oil
1940s Abstract Mary Potter Art
Oil, Board
1940s Expressionist Mary Potter Art
Oil, Canvas
1950s Post-Impressionist Mary Potter Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Mary Potter Art
Oil, Board
2010s Contemporary Mary Potter Art
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Board
1890s American Impressionist Mary Potter Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Mary Potter Art
Resin, Oil, Board, Mixed Media