Beschreibung:

Jake Sutton (British, b.1947) Favourites in Blue and Yellow, inscribed with title along bottom and signed lower right "Jake Sutton", watercolour with mixed media, 57 x 75 cm Jake Sutton was born in Manchester in 1947. At age seven he was prizewinner in the Daily Express National Children's Painting Competition. He studied at Manchester School of Art and St Martin's School of Art, London. In 1987 Sutton was one of Ten British Watercolourists shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao, Spain. In 1988 the Post Office published a set of stamps based on Sutton's interpretation of sporting themes. In 1988/9 Sutton was a major contributor to the Theatre Museum's Circus! Circus! exhibition, and work by him was purchased at that time for the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Jake Sutton was represented by Francis Kyle Gallery from 1985 to 1995 and he has also showed at the Henley Festival of Music and the Arts. Jake Sutton's painting is immediately recognisable not only for its exuberant use of colour and unworried brushwork, but also for its seemingly endless range of subjects. Typically, these subjects have their origin in crowd scenes, ranging from the streets of London to race meetings in Newmarket and Doncaster, the Henley regatta and performances observed at the theatre, the circus or in the concert hall. Uniting such diversity of subject is a Gallic sense of fete and conviviality. There is an optimism and joie de vivre in Sutton's treatment of scenes and events which recalls the deceptively effortless lyricism of a Raoul Dufy no less than the warmth and gaiety of his palette. 'Jake Sutton's paintings are metaphors for the happy life, the Golden Arrow to Paradise Garden ... his sense of space is better than Dufy's'. (Michael Shepherd Sunday Telegraph).