Philip Sutton

Philip Sutton, born 20 October 1928 in Poole, Dorset, is a British artist who has been active since the 1950s, best-known for highly coloured paintings and prints of landscape, flowers and figures. After leaving the RAF, in 1948, Sutton gained a place at the Slade School of Arts, where he studied under William Coldstream. He won the Summer Composition Prize in 1952 and travelled to Spain, France and Italy on scholarships for a year, before returning to teach at the Slade from 1954 to 1963.

Sutton's first one-man show was held at Roland, Browse and Delbanco in 1956, the year he was also elected a Member of the London Group. This was followed by many solo exhibitions throughout the UK. In 1977 the BBC Arena Programme made a film about his work.