George Potter was born in Washington D.C., America in 1941. He studied for his BA in Fine Art Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) from 1958 to 1962, then completed two years military service in Germany before returning to Berlin on a Fulbright Scholarship from 1967 to 1968. In 1971 he moved to Ireland, where he still lives, in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. George Potter’s work is directly informed by his surroundings and often features streetscapes of Dun Laoghaire, Sandycove and Glasthule. He makes paintings of places that he sees everyday and is fascinated by the relationship between the land and the sea, often glimpsed in his work at the end of roads leading to the shore and between buildings. Potter’s large still lifes and portraits of women also display the same confident use of a sure, heavy line and restrained use of a rich, creamy palette.
George Potter was a part-time lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin from 1975 to 2000, and was elected as an Associate member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2003. He was awarded a major prize at the 1975 Irish Exhibition of Living Art and first prize at Dun Laoghaire Arts Week in 1978. He has exhibited annually in the RHA, Irish Exhibition of Living Art and Figurative Image shows, and has had solo exhibitions of his work with Project Arts Centre and Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin. Potter’s work is represented in the public collections of Trinity College, Bank of Ireland, Jury’s Hotel Group, Nissan Ireland, the OPW and Imperial Hotel, Cork.
Exhibitions with Taylor Galleries:2002 Dun Laoghaire Suite 2002
1990 The Dun Laoghaire Suite
1986
1984
1982