Philip Sutton (artist)

Philip Sutton, RA is a British artist active since the 1950s, best known for large and highly coloured paintings of landscape, flowers and people.

Sutton was born in Poole, Dorset, in 1928 but grew up in Leyton, east London. After leaving school at the age of 14, he worked in a drawing office before carrying out three years National Service, during which he was involved with the Berlin Airlift.

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