Location

Country: Japan
City: Tokyo
Place: British Embassy

Trevor Sutton's empathy with Eastern, and particularly Japanese, culture is reflected in the profound meditative quality of his abstract paintings. Here, an image like a half moon suggests the delicacy of oriental ceramics, screens or tapestries. Sutton believes that the process of making paintings is as important as the end result. His ritualistic technique of applying layer upon layer of glazes using a range of brush sizes and varying colours gives the final painting a smooth surface, while still revealing the underlying texture and providing glimpses of colour beneath the dominant hues.

Trevor Sutton was born in Romford, Essex. After studying at Hornsey College of Art from 1967–1971, he graduated from Birmingham Polytechnic in 1972. He has exhibited his work widely in the UK, Europe and America, and several shows in Japan. His first exhibition in Tokyo, held in 1992 at the White Art Gallery, was warmly received. More recently, he has had solo exhibitions in London, Coventry, Edinburgh, Vienna, Tokyo and Shibukawa.

Places

Subjects

circle, abstract

Materials & Techniques

board, oil, oil painting

Artist

Trevor Sutton (1948 - )

Title

Wisbech

Date

1995

Medium

Oil on board

Dimensions

diameter: 94.10 cm, depth: 5.70 cm, height: 94.10 cm, width: 94.10 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Flowers East, January 2000

Inscription

VERSO, TC: WISBECH. 1995. TREVOR SUTTON. / VERSO, BR: Trevor Sutton.

Provenance

Flowers East

GAC number

17442