| Julia Sutton is an East Anglian artist, who has spent much of life working in continental Europe. After a musical training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a harpsichordist, she established herself as a harpsichord decorator and worked in Belgium, Holland and Germany. She began painting in 1982 and after studies at the prestigious St Martins School of Art in London, she moved to Paris, where her work was discovered and presented by the critic Jacques Bouzerand. A selected list of her exhibitions is as follows: Buckenham Galleries, Suffolk Swan House Gallery, Suffolk Heifer Gallery, London King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich Bircham Contemporary Art, Norfolk Dennis Taplin Gallery, Suffolk Durham Art Gallery, Durham Juin-la-Celle-St. Cloud, Paris Salón de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris Gallery Pierre-Marie Vitoux, Paris Impact Gallery, Albi, France Gallery Ettiene de Causans, Paris Gallery Septentrion, Marcq-en-Barouel, France Sommerville College, Oxford Contemporary Portrait Society, Bloomsbury Gallery, London Christchurch Picture Gallery, Oxford Julia Sutton has also been awarded the Oppenheim John Downes Memorial Award in 1985 and 1986. |
