Jeremy Sutton
Artist, Instructor, Author, Speaker & Performer


Jeremy Sutton Biopic made by students from the Academy of Art University, 2014 (5m 16s).


Inspiration

I am inspired by the masterful use of color of Claude Monet, Henri Matisse and André Derain; by the fearless intensity of experimentation and the simplicity of line of of Pablo Picasso; by the expressive brush work of Vincent van Gogh, John Singer Sargent and Joaquin Sorolla; the strong tonal values of Rembrandt; and by the colorful joie de vivre of LeRoy Neiman.

Media

I work across multiple media, blending the beauty, quality and texture of analog media with the spontaneity, power and versatility of digital art tools in creating expressive contemporary portraiture. It is this synthesis and synergy of art and technology that I am excited to share with you here on PaintboxTV.

Background

I’m originally from London and have now made San Francisco my home. My journey of making art started with drawing from imagination as a child which developed into a passion for drawing portraits and figures from life. I studied life drawing, sculpture and etching at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, U.K., while earning a degree in Physics from Pembroke College, Oxford University. I then studied lithography and life drawing at the Vrije Academie, The Hague, The Netherlands, before moving to the heart of Silicon Valley, California, in 1988. I was first introduced to using the computer as a fine art tool in 1991, and have been exploring the digital art medium ever since, using, teaching, demonstrating and performing with every version of Painter from version 1 onwards. After a career selling superconducting magnets for Physics research, I became a full time professional artist in 1994. Recent projects have included being commissioned to paint a large Heart, purchased by Visa Corporation and placed on Union Square in the center of San Francisco, as part of San Francisco General Hospital’s Hearts in San Francisco program; performing live action painting as a tableau vivant at the de Young and Legion of Honor Museums (creating studio tableaus and portraying the historical artists Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse) and performing live digital painting for clients ranging from Cirque du Soleil (at the TOTEM show in their Tapis Rouge tent in San Francisco) to Oracle (at Oracle World) and the largest custom car show on earth, SEMA in las Vegas.

Quick Facts

Bachelors degree in Physics from Oxford University;
Degree of Photographic Craftsman from the Professional Photographers of America;
Painted first live digital portrait of Sir Richard Branson on the Virgin Atlantic Inaugural into San Francisco (1994);
Corel Painter Master since the creation of the Corel Painter Master program;
Member of the Corel Painter Advisory Council and Beta Team;
Author of six books, including the Painter Creativity series;
Founder of PaintboxTV;
Invited platform speaker at many international conferences, including SIGGRAPH, Macworld, Imaging USA and Wedding & Portrait Photographers International; presenter at flagship Apple Stores in London, New York and San Francisco;
Named as a co-inventor on Corel’s pending patent application for controlling color selection using gestures in a vision system (related to the Leap Motion implementation in Corel Painter Freestyle).
Entertainment Officer 2009 – 2011 for the Oxford University Society of Northern California.

Education

  • 2013 – present Life Drawing, Sharon Art Studios, San Francisco, CA
  • 2010-12 Life Drawing and Etching, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • 1985 – 88 Lithography and Life Drawing, Vrije Academie, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • 1982 MA Oxon (Physics), Pembroke College, Oxford University, UK
  • 1979 – 82 Life Drawing, Sculpture and Print-Making, Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University, UK (extra-curricula classes)

Selected One Person Exhibitions

  • 2014 “Silicon Valley Series”, San Jose Marriott Hotel, San Jose, CA
  • 2014 “Portraits” Palm Beach Photographic Centre, West Palm Beach, FL
  • 2014 “Endless Dance”, Embarcadero Conference Center, San Francisco, CA
  • 2013 “Portrait of the Master”, Pembroke College, Oxford University, UK
  • 2006 “San Francisco Bay Area Women of Style”, Nordstrom, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 “Legendary Mayors of San Francisco”, Chenery Mansion, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 “Groovin’”, DeKroon Salon, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 “Got Soul”, Mason Street, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 “Move to the Groove”, ArtSFest, San Francisco, CA
  • 1989 “Faces”, Gordon Biersch, Palo Alto, CA

Public Art Commissions

  • 2014 “Silicon Valley Series”, permanent installation of series of eight artworks in the San Jose Marriott Hotel, San Jose, CA
  • 2011 “Classic San Francisco”, Large Heart commissioned by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, installed on Union Square, San Francisco, CA, purchased by Visa Corporation and now installed in Visa headquarters, Foster City, CA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2014 “Paint by Pixels”, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY
  • 2014 “Mobile Digital Art Exhibition”, Mobile Digital Art & Creativity Summit, Palo Alto, CA
  • 2009 “Jazz Ambassadors”, Jazz Heritage Center, Lush Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 Hotel des Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 43 South Molton Street, London, U.K.
  • 2005 “More Than a Game: The Art of Baseball”, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 “Spectra Ball Art Exhibit”, The Old Mint, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 “MELT”, Art Explosion Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2004 “Sneak Peak”, Art Explosion Studios, San Francisco, CA
  • 1996 “Ylem: Artists Using Science & Technology”, Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco, CA
  • 1995 “Art & Technology”, San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA
  • 1995 “Human Forms”, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1995 “Alternative Views”, The Williams Gallery, Princeton, NJ
  • 1994 “Digital Fine Art”, Academy of Art College Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1994 “Fractal Design”, Kodak Juried Traveling Art Gallery,
  • 1994 “Portraits by Aritsts”, Galerie Tatou, Beverly Hills, CA
  • 1993 “Breaking Down Walls”, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
  • 1993 “About Face”, Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
  • 1993 “Holocaust Survivor Portraits”, Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center, Berkeley, CA
  • 1990 “Self-Portraits”, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

Selected Live Event Painting Performances

  • 2014 SEMA, Las Vegas, NV
  • 2014 Nuit Blanche Arts Festival, Toronto, ONT, Canada
  • 2014 Oracle World, San Francisco, CA
  • 2013 David Hockney “Bigger Exhibition”, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
  • 2013 Leap Motion, SXSW, Austin, TX
  • 2012 “Henri Matisse Tableau Vivant”, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 “Pablo Picasso Tableau Vivant”, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
  • 2011 “TOTEM”, Cirque du Soleil, San Francisco, CA
  • 2010 “Vincent van Gogh Tableau Vivant”, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
  • 2010 “Edgar Degas Tableau Vivant”, de Young and Legion of Honor Museums, San Francisco, CA
  • 1998 Total Systems Services booth, Las Vegas, NV
  • 1998 Digital Hollywood, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1996 The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA
  • 1996 Apple Theater, Macworld, San Francisco, CA
  • 1995 TED Conference, Monterey, CA
  • 1994 Virgin Atlantic 10th Anniversary, City Hall, London, UK
  • 1994 Virgin Atlantic San Francisco Inaugural, en-route between London and San Francisco
  • 1991 RasterOps booth, San Jose, CA
  • 1991 Wacom booth, SIGGRAPH, Las Vegas, NV

Publications—Books

  • 2009 Painter 11 Creativity: Digital Artist’s Handbook, Focal Press
  • 2007 Painter X Creativity: Digital Artist’s Handbook, Focal Press
  • 2005 Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist’s Handbook, Focal Press
  • 2004 Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist’s Handbook, Focal Press
  • 2003 Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artist’s, Wiley
  • 2003 Fractal Design Painter Creative Techniques, Hayden Press

Publications—Video & DVDs

  • 2010 Post-Print Painting the Sutton Way, DVD, Sutton Studios & Gallery
  • 2007 How to Paint from Photographs Using Corel Painter X, DVD, Sutton Studios & Gallery
  • 2007 Learning Corel Painter X with Jeremy Sutton, DVD, Sutton Studios & Gallery
  • 2007 The Art of Collage Portraiture, DVD, Sutton Studios & Gallery
  • 2005 Painter IX Simplified for Photographers, DVD, PhotoVision
  • Digital Innovator Vol 4, Natural Media Painting, DVD, Wacom
  • 2004 Painter Creativity for Wedding and Portrait Photographers, DVD, PhotoVision
  • 2003 Fractal Design Painter 4.0 Training Video Series, VHS, MacAcademy
  • 1998 Total Painter Video Training Series, VHS, Total Training

Selected Teaching Experience (excluding many workshops in Sutton Studios & Gallery)

  • 2014 Mobile Digital Art & Creativity Summit, Palo Alto, CA
  • 2014 Paint on the Go! iPad painting at the National Gallery,London, UK
  • 2014 FOTOfusion, Palm Beach Photographic Centre, West Palm Beach, FL
  • 2013 Corel UK, Maidenhead, UK
  • 2012 Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2012 Professional Photographers of North Carolina State Convention and East Coast School, Raleigh, NC
  • 2010 De Roos Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2009 – 2010 New England Institute of Professional Photography (PPA affiliated professional photography school), Cape Cod, MA
  • 2008 FOTOfusion, Palm Beach Photographic Centre, West Palm Beach, FL
  • 2007 Pembroke College, Oxford, U.K.
  • 2005 – 2006 Triangle Institute (PPA affiliated professional photography school), Pittsburgh, PA
  • 2002 Northern California Professional Photographers SChool, Menlo Park, CA
  • 2000 Expression Center for New Media, Emeryville, CA
  • 2000 American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2000 University of California Santa Barbara Extension, Santa Barbara, CA
  • 2000 Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2000 Brazil Painter Workshops, Riode Janeiro, Sau Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 1998 Georgia School of Professional Photography (PPA affiliated professional photography school)
  • 1996 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
  • 1996 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
  • 1996 Center for Electronic Art, San Francisco, CA
  • 1996 The Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
  • 1996 Creative Computer Workshop, Palo Alto, CA
  • 1996 Israel Painter Workshops, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1987 Wolly Merien’s Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands