Clifford Ellis - the Principle of the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham Court

“Peter Potworowski had lived most of his working life in Paris, including working in the studio of Léger and knew most of the things that were going on in the art world. He was a very sensitive and appreciative man and a very good teacher – a miraculous teacher. I gave him one of our so-called studios. These were former Army huts and within a week it had been completely transformed into a kind of Polish fairyland. So you just went into this place and you immediately had a different idea as to what your vision was, there was an invitation to look visually as an artist looks and it already half translated into what you could paint.

Potworowski created something that was no longer of the ordinary world, it had become a magical one – mysterious, joyful, it had strange and varying moods. It was the world of a painter, a very private world made tangible.

His much needed European influence on painting, specifically abstraction, was acknowledged by his fellow artists Lanyon, Heron, Heath and Scott.”