Julia Sutton Biography

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.