This web site features the art of Live Event Painter Jeremy Sutton.
This live painting performance started by depicting the beautiful sunset view from the tasting room terrace of the magnificent Davis Estates winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California, followed by the painting of the members dinner. The painting, a 24″ x 48″ acrylic painting on canvas, was then presented to two guests and signed on the back by winery owners Mike and Sandy.
This live painting performance started in the front bar area of the magnificent Trou Normand restaurant in San Francisco where the reception took place. We then moved to the inner courtyard of the restaurant for dinner and I continued painting there. The initial digital background canvas I started with reflected the color gradient branding of the client.
‘Hallie Plays Bach’ 2019
‘Hallie Plays Bach’ 2019
‘Hallie Plays Bach’ 2019
‘Hallie Plays Bach’ 2019 (created during rehearsal)
‘The Blue Tea-house, Vondel park, Amsterdam’ 2019
Earlier collaboration when I painted Hallie as she played at the San Francisco International Art Salon earlier this year.
Thanks to Nolan for reproduction of his photos and videos above and to Peggy and Sue for bringing down the Dyson fan to cool the artistes and audience:-)
Click here to see photos and videos from the Spring Open Studios 2019.
Click here to see photos and videos from the Fall Open Studios 2018.
Click here to see photos and videos from the Spring Open Studios 2018.
Click here to see photos and videos from the Fall Open Studios 2017.
To add an extra dimension of insight into the creative process for each painting I have augmented them all utilizing the free app HP Reveal (see the videos taken by show organizer Shahasp, shown above). In other words I have enabled an Augmented Reality (AR) overlay that you can experience yourself using your phone or iPad or other mobile device. To make the most of your visit to the show please install the free app HP Reveal on your phone or mobile device and bring head phones so you can listen to the music associated with each piece! Turn your phone volume up. Open the app, allow it to use your phone camera, skip setting up an account, click on the target symbol (you’ll then see ‘bouncing balls’ superimposed over your camera view of what’s in front of you) and point your phone at each artwork in turn.
Please join me at the show on Sunday, November 3rd, 7pm – 8pm, for the End of Show reception. It’ll be the last chance to see the AR-enabled Iconic Silicon Valley Places series on display at the Atlas Cafe.
Google Bikes, 2017
20″ x 20″, dye sublimation on aluminum
LOCATION
Atlas Cafe, 3049 20th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (cross Street Alabama)
Through Sunday, November 3rd, 2019
Cafe open hours:
Monday – Friday: 6:30 AM to 10:00 PM
Saturday: 8 AM to 10 PM
Sunday: 8 AM to 8 PM
End of Show Reception: Sunday, November 3rd, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
The combination of the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Procreate app offers a versatile and powerful art medium, one that is both responsive to the pressure applied as well as extremely portable and convenient. The challenges of the iPad as an art medium is the limited physical size and the smoothness of the glass surface.
For me the iPad complements traditional media, offering a new art medium that opens the door to a whole new world of different creative possibilities:
Jeremy Sutton is a local artist with a studio in the 1890 Bryant Street building. Originally from London, Jeremy studied physics at Oxford University, and became a live event painter specializing in digital media after moving to Silicon Valley. He has performed
with Cirque du Soleil, at the Smithsonian Institute and on the Birdland All-Stars “Art of Jazz” Tour. You may have seen Jeremy perform at the de Young Museum over the years, including at the opening of the “David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition”.
If you want to study iPad painting with Jeremy
please join the iPad Painting Pizzazz Workshop:
October 16 – 18, 2019
$1,200
Jeremy is available for Live Event Painting at your company party or special event.
Throughout the night, Mary Stallings sang some of her favorite jazz standards that have been monumental throughout her career while I created a digital painting (using the iPad pro, Apple Pencil and Procreate app) inspired by what I saw and heard. The replay you see in the video above shares in a few seconds the entire creative process that spanned a couple of hours.
About Mary Stallings
New York Times has declared Mary Stallings as “perhaps the best jazz singer singing today” and continues to sell out prestigious venues such as the Lincoln Center, SFJAZZ Center, Herbst Theater, Prague National Theater, and iconic jazz clubs around the world.
Mary’s phenomenal career includes performances with Billy Eckstine, the Count Basie band, Cal Tjader, Dizzy Gillespie (among many others) and has shared the playbill with Joe Williams, Tony Bennett and Ella Fitzgerald.
Now, based in San Francisco, Mary has served as SFJAZZ’s Resident Artistic Director during the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 Seasons, received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the SFJAZZ Centers 2011 Gala and performed the opening song during the historic Opening Night concert at the SFJAZZ Center on January 2013.
Here are some more photos from the wonderful evening:
Live painting at the opening reception of the Augmenting Cities: A Playful Path to Community inaugural symposium, hosted by Niantic and the Knight Foundation at the Oakland Museum of California to gather and reflect on how people, cities, and technology will evolve and be shaped through augmented reality (AR). I used the iPad Pro 12.9 (3rd gen.), Apple Pencil 2 and Procreate app to create this artwork. It took approximately 2 hours. I incorporated into the painting visual elements from the Niantic AR game Pokémon GO.
Augmenting Cities 2019, 22″ x 40″, pigment ink on canvas
Just as mobile communication and computing has altered the evolution of cities over the last 20 years, AR technology stands to fundamentally change how we connect and interact with each other and experience public spaces and communities for decades to come.
In painting the opening reception (above), and some of the presentations and workshop sessions (below), I mapped what I saw and, in the spirit of the symposium, playfully augmented my sketches with layers of additional imagery and information, each painting telling it’s own story of the experience. The painting of the reception included artistic contributions by attendees. The paintings were displayed on a large LED screen for everyone to enjoy watching the process and the replay videos afterwards.
Symposium Presentations
Urban Playshop Sessions
From program
Big thank you to the Niantic and Eventus Outdoors teams for putting on such a stimulating and interesting symposium and inviting me to paint live during the event.
The artwork shared here was created during a three day company meeting at the Live! by Loews Hotel in Arlington, Texas. It includes a painting of the opening reception party, a painting of two sessions and a painting depicting the 100-year history of the company. All these artworks were created live using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and the Procreate app.
The final image is shown at the top of this page and the time-lapse replay immediately below.
Below are the main stages of this history painting, reflecting the 100-year history of the company.
I painted the scene at the ‘Art Meets Hospitality’ 14th Annual Summer Outing for Philadelphia area professionals in the meetings, hotel, and special events industry on July 17th, 2019, in The Barnes Foundation, a magnificent museum that houses the wonderful art collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes. The event was organized by the Mid-Atlantic Events Magazine – many thanks to Jim and his great team and the fabulous staff of The Barnes!
The theme was ‘An Evening in Paris’ and, as you’ll see from the replay video above, I started off with a 19th century map of Paris as my background canvas. The tools I used were the iPad Pro 12.9 (3rd Gen.), Apple Pencil 2 and Procreate app. Guests were entertained and intrigued to watch on the large LED screen how the painting evolved from scratch to completion. I showed the time-lapse replay from time to time during the evening. Sometimes guests watched themselves being added to the crowd scene (some of them shown below pointing at their representations in the painting!)
Hi Jeremy,
Thank you so much for being such an integral part of the 14th Annual Hospitality Summer Outing!
We appreciate all that you did to make the event such a success and for being so great to work with. Your artwork was a huge hit — it was the center of conversation for many guests — and everyone was in awe of your talent.
It was a pleasure to work with you for this event and we wish you all the best with every future endeavor!
Best,
Isabelle, Hannah, and Shauna
Events Interns
Mid-Atlantic Events Magazine
On Saturday, June 22nd, 2019, I live painted on the iPad at the San Francisco International Art Salon and Fashion Show. The first segment of my iPad painting was in collaboration with modern dance choreographer Mariana Sobral and her eMotion Arts Dance Co. dancers. The piece she choreographed, titled Je Suis la Femme, was inspired by the famous painting by Botticelli “The Birth of Venus” (which is why that served as the canvas), and was a celebration of the feminine. It was performed to the magnificent and beautiful musical accompaniment of Bay Area cellist Hallie Marshall-Pridham playing Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G on a 380-year-old Baroque cello!
The second segment I painted was of Sascha Jacobsen‘s Djangissimo! group (Sascha on bass, Max O’Rourke on guitar and Jason Anick on violin).
The final segment was of the last dance troupe of the evening who performed A Vampire Love Story…”from dusk till dawn”, choreographed by Lucinda Melissa.
The artworks depicting the three segments are shown above.Below is the replay video showing the entire process as I developed the work through the three distinct stages.
This event took place in the historic landmark building, 906.World Cultural Center, 906 Broadway, San Francisco.
Here are some photos:
Live painting at the previous San Francisco International Art Salon and Fashion Show in SOMArts earlier this year.
I created iPad portraits of guests and live painted the stage presentation at the Michael Cerbelli’s “The Hot List™” 2019 in the MPI WEC19 Conference, Toronto, Canada. In this video (above) I share here the replay of Michael’s presentation plus some of the portrait time-lapse replays that show the brush stroke by brush stroke creative process. I used an iPad Pro 12.9 (3rd Generation), Apple Pencil 2 and Procreate app. Each portrait subject received the special and unique take-away of digital files of their portrait and the replay video immediately on completion, which they could then share on their social media.
Jeremy Sutton Live Event Painting, as featured in:
Here is a set of links to all of Michael Cerbelli’s “The Hot List™” 2019 presentations where I have performed live:
January 2019, The Special Event (TSE) show, San Diego, CA
February 2019, New York City, NY
March 2019, International Live Events Association (ILEA), Greater Philadelphia Chapter, PA