Breakdancing at the Daybreaker!
The common theme across my art – whether painting on canvas, iPad or in VR – is taking risk and improvising in the moment. You can see me doing that on the dance floor, or should I say on the grand staircase of the San Francisco City Hall Rotunda, when I breakdanced at a 50s […]
Future Presence at Kepler’s
iPad Sketch Notes
This iPad sketch/notes was drawn (using iPad Pro, Apple Pencil Procreate app) at Kepler’s Bookstore, Menlo Park, as WIRED Platforms Editor Peter Rubin, in conversation with Second Life founder and High Fidelity co-founder Philip Rosedale, discussed Rubin’s latest book, Future Presence: How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life. […]
Next Art of Jazz Performance
Stanford Jazz Fest, Jul 14, 2018
After a phenomenal Art of Jazz Tour on the East Coast and Mid-West with the Birdland All-Stars featuring Tommy Igoe, we are now bringing the Art of Jazz live performance experience mixing art and music to the West Coast! Please join me and the Tommy Igoe Groove Conspiracy on Saturday, July 14, 2018, 8 p.m. […]
Spring Open Studios 2018
From L to R: Myself, Drew Zingg (Birdland All-Stars’ guitarist) with his son, Erin and Birdland All-Stars’ bandleader and drummer, Tommy Igoe, in my studio standing in front of artwork from the tour. On April 7th and 8th, 2018, I opened my studio for the Spring Open Studios Art Exhibition, part of the Mission Artists […]
Art of Jazz 2018 Tour
Enjoy these photos, artworks and videos from the epic and amazing Art of Jazz tour with the Birdland All-Stars featuring Tommy Igoe where I painted live on stage as the band played, working in three media: on canvas, paper and iPad. The numbers: 20 cities, 6,500 miles, 126 artworks created live on stage (21 on […]
Painting the Scene at a Fundraiser
This painting was created live, using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Procreate app, from direct observation at a Google fundraising holiday event in support of a women’s shelter in Palo Alto. As I painted my iPad screen was displayed on two large screens along the wall plus two ceiling mounted LED panels so everyone […]
Patience and John
This painting was created live, using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Procreate app, from direct observation at Patience’s 40th birthday party. Congratulations and happy birthday to Patience! Here are a couple of other portraits from that evening. Caroline Joen and Julie
Cafe Borrone
Cafe Borrone, Jeremy Sutton, 2017, 12″ x 18″, dye sublimation on aluminum This painting was created, using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Procreate app, from direct observation while sitting in the outside area at Cafe Borrone in Menlo Park. I had just seen Walter Isaacson talk about his new book on Leonardo da Vinci. […]
Live iPad Painting at the
Menlo Park Holiday Tree Lighting
This is the painting I created on Friday, December 1st, 2017, outdoors in a community-wide celebration at the City of Menlo Park Holiday Tree Lighting. My iPad screen was displayed on a giant screen that everyone could enjoy watching. You can see how engaged and intrigued the audience were from the photos below (many thanks […]
iPad Art Show
Menlo Park, December 2017
Eight artworks from my new series, Iconic Places of Silicon Valley, were included in the group show iPad Art: Places – 3 Brits in Silicon Valley at Art Ventures Gallery, Menlo Park, California, that ran during December 2017. The other two exhibiting artists in this show were Adam James Butcher and Caroline Mustard. Here are […]