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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 inspires his work, especially the light, colour and atmosphere of Andalucia and Provence. My paintings utilize abstraction as a method and landscape experience as a source. I use the technique of abstract expressionism and the frisson of colour and texture to create my work. Painting is a process of recovering our first idea. Memory is invariably accompanied by feeling. Arthur Potts |
