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Julia Sutton is an East Anglian artist, who has spent much of her adult 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, working in Belgium, Holland and Germany, before commencing her own painting in 1982. After studies at St. Martin's School of Art, she went to Paris where her work was discovered and presented by critic Jacques Bouzerand in the forum 'L'Art de la Critique', and exhibited widely in France.

The craftsmanship of the artist/decorator and the awareness of international art trends gained over a decade in Paris, inform her art which is rooted in a childhood spent in a small fishing port in Suffolk.

She returned to U.K. in 1997 to establish a studio on Lowestoft harbour.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 - The Warehouse, Lowestoft.
2002 - Frames Gallery, NORWICH.
2002 - Toucan Gallery, Beccles, Suffolk.
2000 - Buckenham Galleries, Southwold, Suffolk.
1999 - Swan House Gallery, Beccles, Suffolk Heifer Gallery, London.
1998 - Contact Gallery, Norwich Durham Art Gallery & DLI Museum, Durham Arts Centre Gallery, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
1991 - Lieux de Memoire, Genie de la Bastille, Paris.
1987 - Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris.
1986 - Somerville College OxfordUpstairs Gallery, Oxford.

Selected Group Exhibitions
1999 - King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich, Advice Arcade, Norwich.
1998 - Wrentham Studios Gallery, Wrentham, Suffolk.
1993 - Juin-la-Celle-St.Cloud, Paris.
1992 - Horizons Jeunesse, Grand Palais, Paris.
1991 - L'Art de la Critique,salon -Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris. Detour'91, Agora Billere, Galerie quatre Coins, Roanne, Centres Culturels, Francais,West Africa. Pierre-Marie Vitoux, Paris-Artistes de la Galerie.
1990 - British Art in Albi. Impact Gallery, Albi, France.
1987 - Galerie Septentrion, Marcq-en-baroeul, France.
1985 - Contemporary Portrait Society, Bloomsbury Gallery, London.
1984 - 85 Artists from Oxford, Christchurch Picture Gallery, Oxford.

Education
1982 St. Martins School of Art, London.
1975 - 77 Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, Postgraduate studies in Early Music.
1972 - 75 Institut C. G. Jung - Zurich - auditor.
1968 - 73 B. A. Social Science, Brunel University, London.

Work in Public Collections
Somerville College - Oxford University.
Oxfordshire Health Authority

Publications
International Women's Art Diary 1993.
Horizons Jeunesse.Cat.1992 - text J. Bouzerand.
L'Art de la Critique. Jeune Peinture 1991 - text J Bouzerand.

Awards
Oppenheim John Downes Memorial Award, 1985, 1986.
Arts Council of England, Grant, 2003

Related Work Experience
2003 - Residency Beccles Arts Weekend.
2000 - Visiting Artist with AA2AS Arts Council Scheme to Norwich Art School.
1997 - Arts Facilitator, Waveney Arts Co. Visiting Tutor, Lowestoft College.
1991 - 96 - Lecturer British and American Art and Culture ISEP. Paris.
1990 - 91 - Animator - Art workshop for patients and Staff. Hopital Henri Mondor, Creteil, Paris.
1985 - 86 - Art Teacher (prep. To A.level). City of London School For Girls, Barbican, London.
1984 - Collaboration with Ian Breakwell, London.
1981 - 86 - Art and Art History Tutor, Brown and Brown tutorial College Oxford External tutor to Rhode Island School of Design.
1977 - 81 - Freelance Decorator to makers of Early Instruments.
1968 - 75 - Arts Workshop Leader, and Therapist, ILEA, London.
1968 - 69 - Head of Art Therapy, St. Bernard's Hospital, London.

Artist's Statement
The paintings in this exhibition act together in a play on our notions of 'inside' and 'outside'.

From a conception of the surface as a window pane, or membrane between inner and outer worlds, interior and exterior space, imagination and reality, suggestions of light and water, and refracted light on water combine with the elements to produce a meditation on our living space and our boundaries.

The motif of the circle arises naturally from this conception, closing one space within another - the magic circle, the social circle, the family circle, the sun, the moon, the planets, the sacred dance, the cycle of nature.

Colour deeply felt, sets up a vibration which pushes and pulls, advancing and receding, dynamising the surrounding architectural space; or like a harbour, opens up to welcome the viewer into a world of light, a pool of energy.

Julia Sutton - Lowestoft Habour 2003.