Skip to main content

Mary Potter Art

British, 1900-1981

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.

1
1
1
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
3
3
1
1
1
1
3
3
3
10,119
2,805
2,503
1,396
3
3
Artist: Mary Potter
Related Items
Country Lane with Trees & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Country Lane with Trees & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century Artist

Country Lane with Trees & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century Artist

By James Wright

Located in Preston, GB

Country Lane with Trees & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...

Category

1990s Romantic Mary Potter Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Orientalist oil painting of the Moroccan city of Fez
Orientalist oil painting of the Moroccan city of Fez

Orientalist oil painting of the Moroccan city of Fez

Located in London, GB

This scene of the walled city of Fez in Morocco is populated by figures in small groups and within caravans of camels, bringing trade goods to and from the city. Lying below distant ...

Category

1860s Mary Potter Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Little Landscape 07 - Modern Abstract Landscape, Nature Painting, Framed
Little Landscape 07 - Modern Abstract Landscape, Nature Painting, Framed

Little Landscape 07 - Modern Abstract Landscape, Nature Painting, Framed

By Grzegorz Wójcik

Located in Salzburg, AT

This painting is signed on the back A few words of the artist about his art: When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surface of the sky with the rough texture of earth or grass. I paint symmetrical reflections in water and rhythmic repetitions of trees. Even an ordinary, seemingly uninteresting fragment of the suburban landscape hides a beauty that I want to see and then transfer to the canvas. I am inspired by nature because it contains a hidden secret of existence. For me, painting it is a reflection on life and passing away. It is an attempt to capture the imperceptible essence, to paint what cannot be seen. I think that my paintings can be a respite, an antidote for a man tired of technology, constant rush, hustle and bustle of the city. Grzegorz Wójcik...

Category

2010s Contemporary Mary Potter Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Light 28 August 19:59, Modern Landscape Painting, Minimalistic, Abstract, Sea
Light 28 August 19:59, Modern Landscape Painting, Minimalistic, Abstract, Sea

Light 28 August 19:59, Modern Landscape Painting, Minimalistic, Abstract, Sea

By Robert Motelski

Located in Salzburg, AT

Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...

Category

2010s Minimalist Mary Potter Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Tolomashvili - Untitled
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Tolomashvili - Untitled

Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Tolomashvili - Untitled

Located in Paris, IDF

Acrylic on canvas Nino Tolomashvili is a Georgian painter born in 2003 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. After completing her schooling, she pursued her studies at the Tbilis...

Category

2010s Contemporary Mary Potter Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Little Landscape 01 - Modern Abstract Landscape, Nature Painting, Framed
Little Landscape 01 - Modern Abstract Landscape, Nature Painting, Framed

Little Landscape 01 - Modern Abstract Landscape, Nature Painting, Framed

By Grzegorz Wójcik

Located in Salzburg, AT

This painting is signed on the back A few words of the artist about his art: When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Mary Potter Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

19th century English landscape with cattle, sheep resting Oak Tree with Cottage
19th century English landscape with cattle, sheep resting Oak Tree with Cottage

19th century English landscape with cattle, sheep resting Oak Tree with Cottage

Located in Woodbury, CT

William Shayer (1787–1879) & Henry Brittan Willis (1810–1884) Pastoral Landscape with Cattle and Sheep, circa 1830 Oil on canvas, Signed and inscribed on the reverse Presented in a h...

Category

1830s Victorian Mary Potter Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Tolomashvili - Untitled
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Tolomashvili - Untitled

Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Tolomashvili - Untitled

Located in Paris, IDF

Acrylic on canvas Nino Tolomashvili is a Georgian painter born in 2003 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. After completing her schooling, she pursued her studies at the Tbilis...

Category

2010s Contemporary Mary Potter Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

On The Pink 3 - Series Blobs - Contemporary Oil Painting, Colourful Expression
On The Pink 3 - Series Blobs - Contemporary Oil Painting, Colourful Expression

On The Pink 3 - Series Blobs - Contemporary Oil Painting, Colourful Expression

By Grzegorz Radecki

Located in Salzburg, AT

Grzegorz Radecki is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. Artist about his work: BLOBS. THE CHARM OF DRIPPING PAINT Flowing peacefully in the slow current of...

Category

2010s Contemporary Mary Potter Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Good Morning - Large Format Conceptual Painting, Minimalistic,  Contemplative
Good Morning - Large Format Conceptual Painting, Minimalistic,  Contemplative

Good Morning - Large Format Conceptual Painting, Minimalistic, Contemplative

By Agnieszka Korejba

Located in Salzburg, AT

The painting is corresponding most closely to the first photo on the 1stdibs page A professional photographer took this photo in his studio with good lighting. The other photos were ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Mary Potter Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Jean Emile Laurent, Oriental Pasture, Oil on Canvas, 1930s
Jean Emile Laurent, Oriental Pasture, Oil on Canvas, 1930s

Jean Emile Laurent, Oriental Pasture, Oil on Canvas, 1930s

Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR

Oil on Canvas by Jean Émile Laurent (1906–1983) — Shepherd Child with Two Black Goats in an Oriental Pasture. This lyrical oil on canvas by Jean Émile Laurent—undoubtedly one of the...

Category

1930s Post-Impressionist Mary Potter Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reed 22 November 09:54 - Modern Nature Oil Painting, Abstract, Minimalism
Reed 22 November 09:54 - Modern Nature Oil Painting, Abstract, Minimalism

Reed 22 November 09:54 - Modern Nature Oil Painting, Abstract, Minimalism

By Robert Motelski

Located in Salzburg, AT

Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...

Category

2010s Modern Mary Potter Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mary Potter art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Mary Potter art available for sale on 1stDibs. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Christopher R. W. Nevinson, John French, and Graham Dean.