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My eye is drawn by the twisted abstraction of reflections. This float or buoy was bobbing about in the harbour at Portocolom and I feel mischievously pleased by the final awkward composition.
An original painting by Andrew Potter
Gouache on board (70cm x 35cm) € 800 - SOLD
I love doors, being the gateway between inside and out in the world and this island isn't short of doors of character. Who knows the stories they conceal? This door satisfied all my artistic impulses with the light, texture and colour. I'm very pleased with the result.
Gouache on board (68cm x 48cm) € 2400 - SOLD
This town is surrounded by a number of hills, affording lovely views over the roofs to the distant Tramontana range of mountains. Some of the steps can get an inveterate smoker rather breathless but it is worth it!!!!
Gouache on board (69cm x 49cm) € 1500 - SOLD
Whilst I'm very pleased with the results, I found this a complicated project that took an awful lot of time – so I shall think twice before embarking on something similar! However, it was nice to have an excuse to nose around other peoples gardens.
Gouache on board (66cm x 48cm) € 2100 - SOLD
Another view from someone's rooftop. Just down the road from where I live. It never ceases to amaze me that behind all those crumbly facades there are gardens of beauty like oases. Very pleased with this painting and quite fancy a dip in that pool now that the weather's warming up here.
Gouache on board (70cm x 50cm) € 2400 - SOLD
We have a market in the town every Sunday and there is often a fella with antiques. These bottles – all clean and shiny - were on one of his stalls and I was drawn to the reflections of the street in them. Quite a challenge to paint as everything seemed to be bent and twisted but I employed a looser than normal technique to try and capture the wateriness of the green glass. A success, I think.
Gouache on board (66cm x 44cm) € 2100 - SOLD
I've droned on about it before but I love where I live! This is one of the views from my friend Peter's roof and I got lost in the layers of detail descending to the foreground. All those lives and all that D.I.Y. Yeah, it's nice here!
Gouache on board (69cm x 23cm) € 2400 - SOLD
I've let the dog off the lead and I've let him REALLY run! Part dream, part mischief, this painting has local inspiration and that abandoned atmosphere that I adore. You'll recognise the view out of the window from one of my earlier paintings, and I've tried to imbue the whole composition with a Mallorquian feel that I have now come to call home.
Gouache on board (69cm x 50cm) € 6000 - SOLD
Another view of our local mountain, this time from the west in the mid-morning light. When one paints this magnificent landscape, one soon realises how many shades of green there are!
Gouache on board (69cm x 49cm) € 2400 - SOLD
I haven't painted for quite a while and the weather has been unusually grotty – cold, dull, and wet. So it was good to stand in the warm sunshine one morning, looking at our local mountain with everything pin - sharp and still. I really got my teeth into this as it's a composition I've been itching to do for months.
An original painting by Andrew Potter
Gouache on board (71cm x 50cm) € 2400 - SOLD
Extinction is so sad – The thought that a species will never be seen again is so melancholy, and how it will affect the greater ecosystem is pretty unsettling to say the least. Of course, this is as true for a bacterium or a snail as it is for a whale. This painting, of the last specimen of a (fictional!) creature is also an illustration that some organisms have reached the end of their evolutionary road and that sometimes nature must be allowed to edit.
An original painting by Andrew Potter
Gouache on board (48cm x 28cm) € 800 - SOLD
I found this splendidly knackered old bike at the stall in the market. It was leaning next to a wall and I wondered what it would look like in front of a mural – I chose to paint a gannet at random. The whole thing becomes a mural and I am very pleased with it.
An original painting by Andrew Potter
Gouache on board (69cm x 43cm) € 1800 - SOLD
I decided to paint a rooster – I know not why – and since I couldn't go out I had to rely on internet resources and I had a splendid time depicting those absurd wattles. I employed a mixture of techniques and I am ultimately chuffed with this reptilian portrait.
An original painting by Andrew Potter
Gouache on board (65cm x 49cm) € 1800 - SOLD
Since I can't wander around irate Spanish farmers property looking for inspiration, I'm forced to find images I like on the internet. So, it's not art, it's illustration. I think this is an old Bentley Continental (someone will correct me I'm sure!) but whatever, this has all the components I like in a painting; - texture, light, the triumph of nature and a touch melancholy
An original painting by Andrew Potter
Gouache on board (34cm x 70cm) € 800 - SOLD
I've always loved the humble, dusty, on-the-make 'sparrer'. You can find them in various guises the world over but sadly their numbers are diminishing. I decided that since I was locked down, I’d pay tribute with this illustration of a proud young male. I like the simplicity of this and that lovely curve of rusty metal.
An original painting by Andrew Potter
Gouache on board (70cm x 39cm) € 800 - SOLD
This is the fourth in my series of paintings for a poster celebrating this lovely old town - I've been meaning to get around to this for a long time, it depicts San Salvador – the highest point in the south of Mallorca – and the surrounding countryside. I'm very pleased with it.
Gouache on board (68cm x 47cm) € 1500 - SOLD
A title freely borrowed from the late, great Sandy Denny
This is the door to our roof terrace, - weathered, faded and ageing. I took it off its hinges, so to speak, and placed it in isolation so that it could tell its story. This is an example of how one of my paintings - “ The meaning of life”- can lead on to other paintings, I got really “intimate” with that door.
Gouache, ink & ballpoint pen on board (70cm x 48cm) €2000 - SOLD
I found this piece of ordinary driftwood on the beach at Porto Colom which features in my earlier painting - “Eight signs of life.” For some reason I hung onto it and eventually painted it again.
I find the random shape, the peeling paint and its isolation on the art board strangely satisfying.
I don't personally think that life has any meaning apart from just loving one another and the earth. But I do know that some people find significance in all sorts of arbitrary things and I thought that this object could be as good as anything else, hence the title.
Gouache on board (68cm x 47cm) €2000 - SOLD
I just loved the startling colours at the vineyard I visited last year and the gaudy abstract patterns of the leaves and stems. It amused me to make the view through the foliage blurred, hoping to make the leaves the centre of attention.
Gouache on board (65cm x 40cm) €1200 - SOLD
I’m quite sure that this view is commonly encountered up and down the island when the eyelids are first cracked open in the morning. Wine, tapas and endless conversation about nothing in particular that involves the opening of 'just one more' bottle. In the sun. I love Mallorca.
Gouache on board €2100 - SOLD
I was quite taken with this rickety structure leading down to the sea – A slipway for the boats pulled up on the rocky foreshore a few miles from Andratx. The limestone was full of ankle-twisting holes and edges that were a pleasure to paint and I'm pleased with the cool,calm water.
Gouache on board (69cm x 20cm) €1800 - SOLD
Lovely angled light, the patina of old walls, plenty of signs of life but no people and just a friendly neighbourhood warning.
Gouache on board (70cm x 31cm) €1800 - SOLD
Another old railway sleeper fence post;- this painting was knocking around my studio uncompleted for a few months. Using all my artistic integrity I decided to bung a beer bottle and flower on top and call it good.
Gouache on board 49cm x 19cm €300 - SOLD
Gouache on board (59cm x 21cm) €1000 - SOLD
There is a point halfway through the morning when the sum begins to pick out small sections of the view from our roof garden.
Of course, the sunlight changes everything – the roofs, the colours of the washing, the depth of blue of the sky. So suddenly it’s not an ordinary day at all.
I love the combinations here of the humdrum and the aircraft con trails making a line for distant lands.
Gouache on Board (69cm x 25cm) €2700 - SOLD
What a stunning view from the castellations above this wonderful town. Plus those sneaky peeks into courtyards and windows....
Gouache on Board €3000 - SOLD
I encountered these doors in a side street of this lovely town and was struck by the angled light picking out the age and patina of the wood.
Gouache on Board (60cm x 49cm) €4000 - SOLD
More angled light - this time in Felantix. It does seem to pick out all the scars in the wood that have accumulated over the years.
Gouache on Board (68cm x 49cm) €3000 - SOLD
Well I return there all the time so it's bound to feature in quite a few of my paintings.
Gouache on Board (69cm x 23cm) €1800 - SOLD