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Philip Sutton RA: Portrait of the Artist, 70 Years of Self-Portraits

Philip Sutton RA, Who knows but the world may end tonight?

6 W Bay Rd, West Bay, Bridport DT6 4EL, United Kingdom

Even at 96, Philip Sutton isn’t slowing down. Five years ago, he opened a gallery in Bridport, Dorset, near his home in the quaint town of West Bay. He still paints with the same bold energy, and his large canvases—portraits, landscapes, still lifes—burst with sweeping brushstrokes in Fauvist colors. Sutton’s art, the critic John Russell Taylor wrote, “welcome[s] you with open arms.” This exhibition presents a lifetime of his self-portraits, each revealing a distinct state of mind—this one eerily transcendent, that one abstract, still another grounded in reality. They pulse with life. —Elena Clavarino

Photo courtesy of Sladers Yard Gallery, Dorset