Live Action Painting by Jeremy Sutton

at Special Events

My live action painting is great fit for corporate special events, VIP entertainment, inaugural celebrations, museum open houses and fundraising galas. I've performed live painting at many international trade shows, conferences and corporate events over the years with clients including Apple, IBM, Microsoft, CISCO, Wacom, Corel, Bill Graham Presents, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Jack Morton Worldwide, TED Conferences, IDG Publishing, Cirque du Soleil and Virgin Atlantic Airlines. I work across all media, from using traditional pastel and oils, to cutting-edge digital painting large rear-projection screens with use of state-of-the-art digital art softawre and hardware. The unique way I can combine real-time live portraiture with the use of digital media offers an intriguing, exciting, entertaining and memorable experience. My painting performances can incorporate live music accompaniment. I can customize my paintings to suit each situation, incorporating into my paintings logos, motifs, themes, photos and products.

I provide a unique and fascinating form of interactive entertainment that can be enjoyed by many people watching the process unfold on the large screen.

The Happy Feet, Happy Paint video on YouTube shows an example of a three minute live painting I created in Sweden using house paint on hardboard. This will give you a sense of the dynamism, enthusiasm and energy I bring to my performances. When I work with digital paint media the painting can be projected as large and dramatically as you wish! I painted on a 50 foot high projection screen at the George Coates Theater in San Francisco in the mid-'90s. The result is always a unique live art performance that captivates, enthralls, inspires and entertains all at the same time.

If you are interested in hiring me to perform at your event please call (415) 641-1221 or email jeremy@jeremysutton.com.

Here are some pictures from past live action painting performances:

Live digital painting performance in the Tapis Rouge VIP tent at the Cirque du Soleil Totem show, San Francisco, 2011.

Live portrait performance at Google, Mountain View, CA.

Virgin Atlantic Airlines CEO and Founder, Sir Richard Branson, massages my portrait subject while I performed at the Virgin Atlantic Tenth Anniversary Party in London, UK.

Richard Saul Wurman sits for his live digital portrait at the TED Conference, which he co-founded, in Monterey, CA.

Performing at the Apple Theater, Macworld, San Francisco

Completed portrait at the Total Systems Services booth in Las Vegas, NV.

Painting on a digital graffiti wall at the LOAD Exhibition, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.

Adobe Systems co-founder John Warnock and I holding the digital portrait I created of him from life, at the Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA.