Linda Sutton
{{short description|British painter (born 1947)}}
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Linda Sutton (born 1947) is a British painter and president of the Small Paintings Group.
Biography
Sutton was born in 1947 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.{{cite web |title=Linda Sutton |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/linda-sutton |website=Royal Academy of Arts |access-date=24 August 2021}} She attended Southend College of Technology then studied at Winchester School of Art. Sutton lived for a year in Antwerp, where Queen Fabiola of Belgium purchased one of her works from her studio at the Antwerp Academy.{{Cite web |last=Torr |first=Rosa |date=2017-05-24 |title=Meet Linda Sutton |url=https://artonapostcard.com/blogs/blog/meet-linda-sutton |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Art on a Postcard |language=en}} Sutton then attended the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1974.{{cite web |title=Sutton, Linda, b.1947 |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/sutton-linda-b-1947 |website=Art UK |access-date=24 August 2021 |language=en}}
Her works are often based on mythological themes with an autobiographical perspective and dreamlike quality,{{Cite web |date=2025-04-12 |title=Linda Sutton- "Self-Portrait on the North Sea" Surrealist Painting… |url=https://reevesartgalleryhouston.com/product/linda-sutton-self-portrait-on-the-north-sea-surrealist-painting-1973 |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Reeves Art + Design Gallery |language=en}} such as her work Perseus and Andromeda II.{{Cite web |title=Linda Sutton |url=https://totteridgegallery.com/artist/linda-sutton/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Totteridge Galler}} She has also produced works inspired by characters from Italian theatrical works and operas, such as Don Giovanni, Faust, Desdemona, Rosina, and Rusalka. She has also painted portraits of opera singers, such as Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu.{{Citation |last=Sutton |first=Linda |title=Angela Gheorghiu |work=Victoria and Albert Museum |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1305439/angela-gheorghiu-painting-sutton-linda/ |access-date=2025-04-12}}
Sutton's paintings are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts,{{Cite web |title=Susanna and the Elders at Clapham Common {{!}} Works of Art {{!}} RA Collection |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/suzanna-and-the-elders-at-clapham-common |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Royal Academy of Arts}} and the Sainsbury Collection. She has also been a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Sutton has also spent much of her life in Calabria, Italy, and became the first non-Italian artist to hold an exhibition in the Chiesa della Badia.
From 2022, Sutton has been president of the Small Paintings Group.{{Cite web |title=Linda Sutton |url=https://www.thesmallpaintingsgroup.co.uk/linda-sutton |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=The Small Paintings Group}}
References
External links
- [http://www.lindasutton.com Artist's website]
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Category:21st-century English painters
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:21st-century English women artists
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Category:Alumni of the University of Southampton
Category:English women painters
Category:People from Southend-on-Sea