Arthur Potts von der Lippe

After graduating with honours from the arts program at Beal Tech in London, Ontario, Arthur Potts received a Fine Arts scholarship from the Latham Foundation in California to attend the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. There he studied drawing and painting with James Pinto and Fred Samuelson; sculpture with Lothar Kestenbaum.

His work follows in the tradition of post war European artists and American abstract expressionist painters. Creative influences include Patrick Heron, Nicholas de Stael, Peter Lanyon, Willem de Kooning and Richard Diebenkorn.

Extensive travel in Europe including several painting and sketching sojourns continually inspire his work, especially the light, color and atmosphere of Andalucia and Provence.