Chris Potter , a renowned landscape artist in Santa Barbara whose works and charisma showcased this region in the most beautiful ways, has died. He was 49.
A Santa Barbaran by birth, Potter became a community fixture by leaving his day job to paint a landscape a day in 2010, a protocol he maintained — mostly more — until his death. He painted works small and large, with prices ranging from near-nothing to tens of thousands of dollars, often donated to support a variety of causes.
Potter was stricken with a rare form of cancer in the fall of 2021, but persevered against long odds to survive. He returned to painting and life with a vengeance, pursuing his passions until the end.