John Sutherst

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I  have been drawing and painting since childhood. I won a couple of exhibitions when I was about 10 years old but never considered art as a career.  Instead I went on to read Medicine at Sheffield University and came to work as a Consultant/Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of Liverpool in 1974.  The medical years were busy but I continued to paint and draw.  In about 1995 I realised that medically I had achieved  as much as I wanted both in the UK and internationally and decided to retire early and devote more time to painting.

 

Since then I have taken my art more seriously and try to exhibit as often as I can.  I usually have at least two solo shows per year together with  a number of group exhibitions. I have had exhibitions in the USA and Australia.

 

My art is mostly about colour. Clearly, I have been influenced by Degas, Matisse and Schiele,  but I keep experimenting with different media and techniques as I see and come across any other art work.    I work hard at my art but I enjoy it. I am happy about the way it is progressing.

 

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Group exhibitionsh

 

Liverpool University Art Group Annual Exhibitions, 1975 - present.  (I helped found the University Art Group in 1975 and have exhibited with this group on an annual basis ever since.)

Southport Palette Club, 1985, 1986, 1987

Onyx Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 1985 

The Salmagundi Gallery Annual Exhibition, Fifth Avenue, New York, 1986  These were two important early exhibitions but I couldn't afford the time off to go.  I had met an American art dealer in Liverpool (called Jon-Henri Bonnard, would you believe - he said he was a distant relative of Pierre!) who persuaded me to send some pictures to New York, which I did.  He did sell one small picture of a donkey and exhibited the other two but I never saw them again. They were favourites - 'Group of Old Men Arguing' and 'Susie'.  I still have prints but I would like to know where the originals went.  When I was in New York a couple of years later I had lunch with Jon-Henri.  He assured me that they were safe and were currently being exhibited in Cape Cod, but I searched and couldn't find the gallery and Jon-Henri himself seemed to go to ground after that.

Ayling Porteous Gallery,1986

Eye Gallery, Bristol, 1988

Endbutt Gallery, Liverpool, 1995

Hanover Galleries, Liverpool, 1997, 1998, 1999

Blackthorn Galleries, Birkenhead, 1997, 1999, 2000

NSPCC Annual Art Exhibition,Liverpool,  1999

Sefton Open Exhibition, Southport, 1999

Crosby Hall Educational Trust (CHET) annual Art Fair,

1999-2006.

Simply Heathcotes, Liverpool, 2001

Artists Club, Liverpool, 2001

The View Gallery, Liverpool, 2001

The Mill House Gallery, Parbold, 2001

Art Promotions Queensland, Brisbane, 2002. I was invited to be the 'feature artist' at this exhibition by the organiser Bernie Hollett who had seen me drawing in an airport lounge on an earlier visit to Australia.  It was a great experience, sold some pictures and met a bunch of Australian artists.

Crosby Hall Educational Trust 2004.  As South Sefton Artists we had a 'one-off' show for our group held at CHET in 2004.

Liverpool Academy of Arts, 2005,2007

Wendy J Levy Gallery, Didsbury, 2004,2005 

 

 

Solo exhibitions

 

Hanover Galleries,Liverpool, 1986,1988,1999

Ayling Porteous Gallery, Chester, 1986

Artists' Club, Liverpool, 1987,1989,1990,1992, 1998

Atkins Gallery, Leicester, 1988

Birkenhead Medical Society, 1989

Liverpool Academy of Arts, 1996 (with Ken Edwardson's wood carvings), 2004, 2006

Liverpool Women's Hospital, annually, 1998-2005

Wendy J Levy Gallery, Didsbury, 2001, 2003, 2006

Boodles, Liverpool, 2007.  This show was particularly exciting.  Boodles is a very classy jewellers in the UK and Ireland. They have a splendid shop in Liverpool and some of the staff have bought pictures from me before. On this occasion they really did me proud - the whole shop was turned over for art work, there was a terrific window display, and the whole evening was enhanced by canapes and champagne.  And I sold a lot of pictures. Fabulous evening, couldn't have been better.  If Nicholas Wainwright or has lady Alex read this then thanks again.

 

At Home, Studio Weekends.  I try to have an 'at home' open studio exhibit about once a year.  This takes the form of an open weekend when guests arrive at any time, sample some wine and cheeses, etc., and browse without any obligation to buy. These weekends are great fun.

 

One such session was 'An evening of art and food' sponsored by Abbey Sefton Hospital in 2001.  This was great: half the audience was treated to a culinary display by Patrick Trodden and the other half to a talk by myself.  At half-time we switched over.

 

Commissions. For Liverpool Post and Echo in collaboration with Dot-Art (an agency I am linked to) I have just finished a commission portrait of Professor Janet Hemingway, the Head of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, - a delightful and clearly very bright and powerful lady - but who was difficult to paint because she was extraordinarily busy and always on the move.  I was one of ten artists commissioned to paint the portraits of ten 'Spirit of Liverpool' notable public figures.  Each had been voted champion of his/her particular field by the readers of the Liverpool Echo. Last week there was a grand reception and unveiling ceremony.

 

 

bitions. I have had exhibitions in the USA and Australia.

 

My art is mostly about colour. Clearly, I have been influenced by Degas, Matisse and Schiele,  but I keep experimenting with different media and techniques as I see and come across any other art work.    I work hard at my art but I enjoy it. I am happy about the way it is progressing.