Jacob Sutton

I have been painting and drawing for over 35 years. I have done this in eight countries. Hillary Clinton has one of my Afghanistan portraits of a woman, where I lived for three and a half years. I have two books published for the British Museum, Shakespeare & Friends which features portraits of major British writers which I did at Hay on Wye Literary Festival and the Oxford Literary Festival. The other book Afghanistan Portraits is a collection of charcoal portraits drawn across the country, many in remote villages many miles from Kabul. I was Artist in Residence at 10 Downing St from 2006-2007 while Tony Blair was Prime Minister.

Visiting lecturer about the Art World to:  
Royal College of Art, London
Goldsmith College of Art, London
Wimbledon School Art, London
Norwich School of Art, Norwich
Sussex University, Brighton
Southampton University, Southampton 
The University of West of England, Bristol
Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth
Exeter School of Art, Exeter
Plymouth College, Plymouth 
Winchester Art School, Winchester
Winchester University, creative writers workshop, Winchester
Oxford Brooks University, Oxford
University of Wales College, Newport
Bournemouth & Poole College of Art,
Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth
Carmarthen Art College, Carmarthen
Life in Afghanistan: Bristol University, Bristol

USA:
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
Radford University, Radford, Virginia.
Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia.
Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia.
Roanoke College, Roanoke, Virginia.

Charles S. Smith. CEO of the Royal Academy of Arts London says:
Jacob Sutton has an extraordinarily quick and fluent way of drawing and enjoys the challenge of capturing the character of people in a single sitting, trying to convey not just what they look like but who they are. 
Thanks to the organisers of two major literary festivals, both of which attract large numbers of key British speakers, he has had good access to a wide range of prominent writers and thinkers, whom he has related to previous drawings he has done of Shakespeare. 
So here we have quick sketches of many of our best known public intellectuals, including Jonathan Bate, who has done so much to interpret Shakespeare to 
new audiences, and Anthony Grayling, one of our best known philosophers, Stephen Fry looking as ever eternally gloomy, and Claire Tomalin in the year in which she published her magisterial study of Charles Dickens.
What the volume conveys is the way in which writers now enjoy a much more public presence through their performance at festivals, talking directly to their audiences rather than just working through the medium of print. The spoken language is, once again, becoming as important as the written. 
Alongside the development of online e...