Arthur Potts von der Lippe

Artist's Statement

Arthur Potts is represented by Trias Gallery in Toronto and his paintings have been shown by Trias at the Toronto International Art Fair for the past two years. He is also represented by Harbinger Gallery in Waterloo and by the Ken Segal Gallery in Winnipeg. Cruickston Park Paintings — Arthur Potts, 2007 Cruickston Park is a 900 acre estate adjacent to “The Relais & Chateau Langdon Hall Country House Hotel & Spa” located along the Grand River in Cambridge, Ontario approximately 100 km west of Toronto. In 2001, “RARE Charitable Research Reserve” was founded, a non-profit organization that owns and protects in perpetuity most of the land reserve at Cruickston Park. Over the summer Arthur Potts has been painting in one of the old stone farmhouses located on the RARE property. The diverse landscape on the property is comprised of farm buildings, implements, a flood plain, old growth forests, Carolinian habitat and limestone cliffs. The context of the new paintings is the product of events enacted on the canvas and developed from a specific site, objects, or the experience in the landscape. The resulting organic forms and colours and the suggestions of special relationships result in abstract paintings concerned with balance, rhythm and total design — images expressing the artist’s relationship to his environment.