Philip Sutton RA

1928 Born in Poole, Dorset, Philip Sutton was brought up in the East  End of  London, where he painted his first landscape of the marshes and Epping Forest. He Left school at fourteen and worked for three years in a drawing office. He did his National Service during the Berlin Airlift

1948-53 Slade School of Art

1953 Travelled to Spain, France and Italy on scholarships. Sold his first paintings to Peter Pears at Roland, Browse and Delbanco and thereafter exhibited paintings in Cork Street for Twenty eight years.

1954 Began teaching at the Slade School of Fine Art, London

1955 Settled in Snape, Suffolk where he painted landscapes.

1956 Elected Member of the London Group

1958 Came back to London, painted nudes, still lifes and views of London.

1969 Retrospective at Leeds City Art Gallery.

1963-64 travelled to Australia and Fiji, returning with a large exhibition of tropical landscapes- his wife made a film “Philip Sutton working in Fiji”.

1966 Editioned prints by Curwen Prints.

1969 Began to spend part of the year for ten years in Cornwall, and painted landscapes, seascapes including a series on Falmouth Docks.

1977 A film was made by the BBC Arena programme about his work. Elected Associate Royal Academician. Retrospective exhibition at Royal Academy.

1979 Invited to tour Israel with a group of artists. Painted on a Kibbutz and in Jerusalem. Designed poster and flag for the Summer Exhibition Royal Academy.

1980 Painted in Australia for four months.

1982 Exhibited six large paintings of the Great Barrier Reef  at the Royal Academy.

1983 Visited North Sea oil rigs arranged by Shell. Painted watercolours in Ireland

1984 Tapestry designed by Philip Sutton made by Joan Baxter and Helen Gibbs at West Dean College Tapestry for Shell Oil.

1985 Designed flag for German painting exhibition at the Royal Academy. Made two editions of silk screen prints at Chilford Hall Press with Kip Gresham. Series of paintings in Battersea Park. Designed 3i logo for Investors in Industry.

1986 A second tapestry made at West Dean College Tapestry Workshop, this time by Penny Bush, of a painting by Philip Sutton. Became involved in painting ceramics. Commissioned by Theo Crosby of Pentagram to paint a wall of tiles at the Art Tile Factory, Stoke-on-Trent for the D.N.B. Bank in Amsterdam. Painted a series of tree and beach pictures in Pembrokeshire. Worked at the pottery of Barbara Lenartowicz and made a series of pots and bowls with her. Worked with the resident potter at the Poole Pottery. Worked with the Welsh potter Alan Cummings at his pottery in Pembrokeshire.

1987 Fulham Pottery Project. Worked with French potter Jean-Paul Landreau for seven months at Fulham Pottery, Battersea, ending with Exhibition of ceramics at Odette Gilbert Gallery, Cork Street, London. Commissioned by the Post Office to design new stamps for them. Issued oin 1989. Painted in Manorbier West Wales. Series of water colours in Cahors, France.

1988 Continued Work with printer Ian Mortimer of I.M. Imprint, London on colour woodcuts using Japanese paper. Painted watercolours in New Zealand. First exhibition in Paris. Painted William Shakespeare for the International Shakespeare Globe Centre in London to help promote  the new theatre being built. Poster made of William Shakespeare painting. Large poster for London Transport. Charcoal and oil painting at Kew for a show in London to raise money for the gardens.

1989 Painting in  Pembrokeshire where he now lives and works.  Elected Royal Academician . Six oil paintings on show at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

1990 New ceramic project with Jean-Paul Landreau in Wales. Painted watercolours in Italy.

1992 Agnews, London. Paintings, ceramics, watercolours and drawings exhibition. The Royal Academy Exhibition, The Joan Hurst Collection.

1995-7 Series of paintings on Shakespeare which continued for the next three years. Exhibition   sponsored by Halifax Plc at the Royal Academy of Arts, the International Shakespeare Globe Centre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Film made about the Shakespeare paintings  by HTV.  Exhibition at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, Philip Sutton Pembrokeshire.

1997 Philip Sutton Paintings, watercolour and Ceramics, Berkeley Square Gallery, London

1998 Father and son Exhibition (with Jacob Sutton) toured Wales.

1999 Father and Son Exhibition, Berkeley Square Gallery, London

2000 Three Generations Exhibition: Philip Sutton, Jacob Sutton ,Claude Sutton at the Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold.

2001 paintings from Manorbier, Piano Nobile Gallery London.

2002 Exhibition of Paintings at the Albany Gallery Cardiff.

2004 Exhibition of paintings at Gallery 27, London and Gallery 11a Leamington Spa.

2005 exhibition of woodcut prints at the Royal Academy of Arts.

2005/6 Exhibition of woodcut prints at the Art Gallery Museum, The Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa.

2006 Exhibition of woodcut prints at the Welsh Assembly, Cardiff.

One Man Exhibitions

1953/1954/1955/1956/1958  Roland, Browse and Delbanco.

1958 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

1959 The Geffrye Museum, London

1960 Retrospective Exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery

1962 Lane Gallery, Bradford

Roland Browse and Delbanco

Stone Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

57 Gallery, Edinburgh

1963 Battersea Central Library

David Jones, Sydney

Rose Skinner Gallery, Perth, Australia

Gallery A Melbourne, Australia

1965 Roland Browse and Delbanco

Stone Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

1966 Curwen Gallery, London

Gallery A Melbourne, Australia

1967 David Jones Sydney

Roland, Browse and Delbanco

London arts associates, Detroit

Arnolfini Bristol

Arts Centre Folkestone

1969 Roland Browse and Delbanco

Hambledon Gallery, Dorset

Park Square Gallery, Leeds

David Jones, Sydney

Arnolfini Bristol

Art Centre Folkestone

1971 Battersea Central Library

Roland Browse and Delbanco

Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

Court Lodge Gallery, Kent

Park Square Gallery, Leeds.

1971 Battersea Central Library

Roland Browse and Delbanco

Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

Court Lodge Gallery, Kent

Park Square Gallery Leeds

Oxford Art Gallery

1972 Battersea Central Library

Studio Prints

1973 Roland, Browse and Delbanco

David Jones Sydney

Peterloo Gallery, Manchester

1974 J.P. Lehman’s Gallery London

1975 Roland, Browse and Delbanco

David Jones, Sydney

1976 Orde Levinson, Johannesburg, Durban, Cape town, S Africa

1977 The Gallery, Falmouth School of Art

Roland Browse and Delbanco

Royal Academy, Diploma Gallery, London

1978 Festival Gallery, Bath

1979 The Workshop London WC1

Browse and Darby, London

The Annexe Gallery, London

David Jones, Sydney

1980 The Holsworthy Gallery, London

Margaret Fisher Gallery, London

1981 Minden Gallery, Jersey

Browse and Darby, London

Borython Art Gallery, Adelaide

1982 Christopher Hall Gallery, London

Browse and Darby, London

1983 Browse and Darby, London

Beaux Art Gallery, Bath

John Bronkley Fellows Exhibition, Norwich

1984 Shell HQ Gallery, London

Browse and Darby, London

Stoke on Trent Exhibition

Cambridge Gallery, Cambridge

1987 Oddette Gilbery Gallery, London

Beaux Arts Gallery, London

1988 Galerie Joel Salaun, Paris

1989 Mowbray Gallery London

Battersea Exhibition, London

10 Soudan Road, London

1990 Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold

Woodbridge Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1991 10 Soudan Road, London

1992 Joan Hurst Collection, Royal Academy

Agnew’s London

1993 Touring North Wales Art Association

1994 welsh arts Council Exhibition

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

1995 Tenby Museum

1997 Shakespeare Exhibition, Royal Academy

Berkeley Square Gallery, London

International Shakespeare Globe Centre, London

Royal Shakespeare Company, Statford-upon-Avon

Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds

2001 Piano Nobile, London

2002 The Albany Gallery, Cardiff

2004 Gallery 27, London

Gallery 11a Leamington Spa

2005 Royal Academy of Arts, London

2005/6 Art Gallery and Museum, The Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa

2006 Welsh Assembly Cardiff

2006 The Richmond Hill Gallery London

2007 The Richmond Hill Gallery, London