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The New Art Centre at Roche Court Sculpture Park opens its summer programme with an exhibition of paintings by Mary Potter (1900-1981). The exhibiting works were all created whilst Mary was living in Aldeburgh and focus on her paintings from the 1960-1980s. The opening of the exhibition coincides with the 75th year of the Aldeburgh Festival founded by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and it remains one of the most well-known music festivals in Britain.

Fragments of the external world appear in these late works, even though the predominant move is clearly towards abstraction. When the Tate …