Joan Potter Works

Joan Potter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Fine Art.

She studied with David Leffel and Robert Phillip at the Art Students League in New York City. Working with these mentors she found her passion in "the Dutch School" of painting.

Joan is nationally recognized for her still life work and is highly sought after and collected for her masterful complexity and execution. Potter applies the elements of "drama and mystery" in her selective focus within each painting. The secret of still life painting, a technique which Potter maintains took her decades to master, lies in making an arrangement of objects which exhibits significance in the interrelationship of the arrangement's parts.

She has a long list of awards from such prestigious groups as Allied Artists of America, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, American Artists Professional League and Grand Central Art Galleries. She is a master signature member of the Oil Painters of America and a member of the American Women Artists. She has had a number of one man and group shows throughout her career and teaches workshops around the country.

Potter currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she has lived since the mid 1980's.  She travels frequently and finds inspiration at the many museums she visits around the world as well as in her beloved Santa Fe that provides for her a nourishing, interesting and beautiful environment in which to work and create.