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
Salon 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.