“In my artwork I strive to express the personality of my subjects and my response to them. My paintings evolve like improvisational dance. The process follows its own path, colors being chosen intuitively, every moment unfolding surprises, each brush stroke feeling its way into the painting. I sculpt in color and form, continuously transforming and remolding my image, like working with wet malleable clay. My experience of the process of creation and how my artwork moves others is what is important to me.” ~ Jeremy Sutton

I was born in London in 1961 and have drawn since I was three years old. Whilst earning my Bachelors degree in Physics (M.A. Oxon) from Pembroke College, Oxford University, I also studied art (life drawing, sculpture and etching) at the University art school, the Ruskin School for Drawing and Fine Art. After graduating I worked in sales and marketing for a local company, Oxford Instruments. This job took me to live in The Hague, The Netherlands, where I studied lithogarphy and life drawing at the Vrije Akademie. I sketched incessantly from 1979, having my first major one-man show at the newly opened Gordon Biersch Restuarant in Palo Alto, California, in 1989. Since that time I have shown in numerous shows (see my resumé), including group shows at the Syntex Gallery in Palo Alto and the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation.

I was first introduced to using the computer as a fine art tool in 1991, and have been exploring the digital medium ever since, currently combining multiple media, such as photography, digital paint, oils, crayon and acrylics. My principal digital painting tools are the Macintosh computer, Wacom tablet and Corel Painter software. Within Painter I can flow seamlessly and effortlessly from painting with broad washes of watercolor one moment to applying thick viscous impasto oil paint the next. I find the level of control I have exceeds that of working in traditional media. The tools and the medium, however, are not my focus. My experience of the process of creation and how my artwork moves others is what is important to me.

My work reflects the synthesis of traditional and modern art tools in creating expressive contemporary portraiture. Subjects who have sat for me include Willie L. Brown, Jr., former Speaker of the California State Assembly and former Mayor of San Francisco; Barry Bonds, the legendary baseball player with the San Francisco Giants; Giles Henderson, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford University; and Sir Richard Branson, the Founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group of Companies.

Besides being a Portrait Artist, I am also an author and educator on the subject of creativity and digital fine art, a Corel Painter Master and speaker at numerous conferences such as SIGGRAPH, Macworld, ImagingUSA and Wedding and Portrait Photographers International. My publications include five books, two video training series, and four DVD tutorials. I have taught workshops, seminars and given presentations throughout the world, including in the U.S., Brazil, Israel, Italy, U.K. and Japan. You can learn more about the teaching side of my life by visiting my educational web site, PainterCreativity.com.

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