The Peter Potter Gallery is situated in the former fire station in the historic and picturesque town of Haddington, East Lothian, twenty miles east of Edinburgh.

The Peter Potter Gallery offers an experience quite different from the run of the mill commercial gallery. Established in 1976 the gallery is now run as a Charitable Trust. It plays a significant role in the artistic and cultural life of the region and Haddington in particular. The Trust has retained the original objectives of the founders: to increase knowledge, understanding, practice and enjoyment of art and has been supported over the years by an Association of Friends.

The gallery has a varied programme of exhibitions which change every four weeks. Work is by mainly Scottish artists and craftspeople, both local and from further afield, with an emphasis on encouraging new and unknown talent.

There is also a permanent display of paintings, prints and photographs as well as sculpture, ceramics, glass, jewellery, metalwork, woodwork and a substantial range of art materials and cards.

Our first floor coffee shop has an incomparably beautiful setting on the bank of the River Tyne, overlooking monuments of historic interest - and the resident nesting swan and occasional kingfisher.

The coffee shop serves light lunches, home baking, tea and coffee.

Come and enjoy the Peter Potter experience.

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Colin Ian Christie

Colin Christie studied at  Edinburgh College of Art and Glasgow School of Art.
He initially worked in graphics and architecture until 1984 when he changed career and lectured in Interior Design and Computer Aided Design. Since 2000 he has worked as a freelance designer producing computer generated graphics and visualisations. In 2006 he began painting again. Colin brings a freshness of colour and a sense of form and space to a variety of subjects, including landscape and still-life.

Simon Crofts – Folks and Things

Brought up in Haddington, Simon Crofts originally studied law at Magdalen College, Oxford University and worked for several years in London and Moscow before becoming a prize-winning photographer (a bronze in the London Photographic Awards and second place in the 12th Agfanet International Photo Competition).  Recent exhibitions include EcoUrbanisme at the French Institute in Edinburgh (2007); East/West at the Camelot Gallery (2005) and regular exhibitions at the Peter Potter Gallery. Crofts’ photographs of the modern city environment capture fleeting moments depicting people which are  juxtaposed with static images. Taken throughout Europe in places as diverse as Scotland, Ukraine, Poland, France, Denmark, Germany and Austria, these images encourage the viewer to speculate and to create analogies between different places and cultures. http://www.croftsphoto.com/

Colin Robertson

Colin trained at Edinburgh College of Art before graduating in 1989. He is fascinated by the landscapes of the Scottish Highlands, the Borders and, of course, East Lothian. He is particularly fascinated by landscape’s capacity for change – its moods and colours – which he skillfully captures in his painting using the resin-based medium of alkyd paint. Commenting on his working methods, Colin says, “Over the years I have worked with my instinctive reaction to landscape as it is transformed by light or atmospheric conditions - which may last only moments - before it merges back into its surroundings and becomes, once again, a hidden secret”.

Judith Rowan

Judith studied at Leith School of Art before completing her studies at Cumbria College of Art and Design in 2000. She is a Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists and serves on the society’s council. Since graduating she has exhibited widely in venues such as the SSA, the Royal Scottish Academy, Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh Printmakers and The Open Eye Gallery. In her current show, which includes a series photo-etchings from monoprints, (some of which are accompanied by texts by Lesleymay Miller), Judith has chosen to focus on the theme of ‘missing’ and has commented: “missing in this context relates to the man-made ‘found objects’ which were picked up on Dunbar’s streets and harbour area. They were misplaced and contain the essence of place.”

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Haddington Open Exhibition is sponsored by McVies WS, Haddington