Dimensions: support: 737 x 914 mm frame: 847 x 1040 x 77 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Mary Potter | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Mary Potter's "East Coast Window," and what strikes me is the stillness, that almost hushed quality created by the muted colors. What do you see in this piece? Curator: Ah, yes, it's a whisper of a painting, isn't it? I feel invited to contemplate the boundary between inside and outside. The window offers a glimpse of the world, like a fleeting memory, yet the objects within—the bowl, the plant—seem equally dreamlike. It's as if Potter is asking us to question what is real and what is imagined. Editor: So it's not just a pretty picture; it's an invitation. Curator: Precisely! Art, at its best, is a doorway, not just a decoration. Editor: I’ll definitely remember that.
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Mary Attenborough studied at the Slade School of Art from 1918-21 and married the writer Stephen Potter in 1927. During the 1930s they lived at Chiswick where she painted views of the river. In 1951 they moved to the Red House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, selling it in 1957 to Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Mary Potter then lived in Crag House on the Aldeburgh sea front while a studio was built for her in the Red House garden. This is a view from Crag House, painted in Potter's distinctive pale and delicate colours. Gallery label, August 1999
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