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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 some photo from the opening reception:

The series

Peggy, Laurie and Pasha

Pasha and jeremy

Jeremy presenting

Heidi and jeremy

Jeremy, Caroline and Adam

L – R: Adam, Maria, Caroline, Katharina, Jeremy, Heidi

Uwe and Peggy

Big thank you to BayPhoto for helping us out with the beautiful metal prints for this show, and to Peggy, Nina and Pasha for these photos.

Poster (designed by Caroline and Katharina)

From the press release for this show:

Art Ventures Gallery, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, presents a unique and provocative exhibit of iPad art paintings by 3 established British artists from the Bay Area and abroad, on Dec 1-30, 2017. Opening night is Dec 1 and will feature a catered reception and captivating artists talks on the process of creation using the iPad and today’s art apps. Works are inspired by local scenes in Silicon Valley and the Mexican Riviera, are available for purchase, perfect for gift-giving during the season of light. Opening night also features virtuoso jazz guitarist Bill Murphy, and a silent auction to benefit local nonprofit Art in Action, dedicated to providing visual arts education to children in the regional area.

In Silicon Valley, where most pay homage to the altar of tech, new exhibits and conversations around the intersection of art and tech are taking place: which informs, inspires and influences the other more? LA-based British contemporary artist David Hockney welcomed and legitimized the iPad as a new tool in creating fine art, dazzling 1000s at museums and galleries globally.

“What fascinates me is not just technology but the technology of picture-making. I spend more time painting, of course, but I treat the iPad as a serious tool. The iPad is influencing the paintings now with its boldness and speed.” David Hockney

Art Ventures Gallery presents its own British collective of iPad-created fine art works by Adam James Butcher, Caroline Mustard, and Jeremy Sutton.

In 2014, British artist Adam Butcher moved from the U.K. to the Riviera Maya in Mexico, where he now works as a professional artist. Since the big move, Adam has made a big impact on an international level. Fine artist, Coach, speaker and writer, he has become a world authority on iPad painting and advocate of the mobile digital art movement. Adam now regularly contributes to The Huffington Post (US) where he has been sharing his ideas on the creative integration of traditional fine art techniques and new light based digital technologies. He is also the creator of the ‘Creative Barriers to Breakthroughs’ program, where he helps artists break through their creative barriers, so that they can achieve the fulfillment and recognition they deserve. Passing from sculpture to collage to painting in the course of his career, Adam uses the iPad as a particularly effective tool for capturing the moment, both in lightning portraits and in strikingly immediate town, land and seascapes.Adam’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe and Asia. His work is inspired by his growing interested in exploring and communicating the physical and spiritual distance between us

Caroline Mustard’s work was created on mobile devices (iPad and iPhone), covering the artist’s artistic journey since she was handed an iPad five years ago and fell in love with it as a medium. Since then it has become her canvas of choice while the iPhone has become her sketchbook. It has been curated to reflect the paradoxical aspect of her wide body of work: the one side showing a strong, passionate and willful artist, setting colors, planes and contrasts with bold strokes which arrest the eye of the viewer and provoke his or her imagination; on the other side we are introduced to the sensitive, romantic side with soft impressions that are full of light and warm colors which melt into one another as if the artist was pouring her heart and feeling into the digital brush. Caroline studied painting at art college in Brighton, UK.

Originally hailing from London, Jeremy Sutton landed in Silicon Valley in 1988 after earning a Physics degree from Oxford University. Jeremy also studied drawing, printmaking and sculpture at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford and lithography and life drawing at the Vrije Academie in the Netherlands. Introduced to the world of digital art in 1991, he became an early digital paint pioneer, writing six books, speaking and teaching internationally, founding the educational site PaintboxTV.com and performing live for clients world-wide, including Cirque du Soleil, the Smithsonian Institute and at the opening of the de Young Museum’s Hockney show. His series of iPad paintings depicting iconic places relating to Silicon Valley, that are on display in this show, are close to Jeremy’s heart as a former Physicist. Each place tells it’s own unique story of this incredible crucible for technology and innovation that we know of as Silicon Valley, thus very fitting that the medium of these artworks is itself the product of Silicon Valley!

Art Ventures Gallery is dedicated to emerging international artists opens in the very center of Silicon Valley. ART VENTURES stokes the fires of creativity, providing visiting international artists with a residency in a Napa Valley studio and exhibition gallery space in Menlo Park.

Here are some photos from my 2017 Fall Open Studios:

with Gustavo and his portrait above piano

painting/sculpting/drawing 3D VR portrait of Gustavo using Google Tilt Brush and Oculus Rift

Emily and Noam at piano

quick iPad study of Emily and Noam

iPad portrait of Annie

with Annie and her portrait

iPad portrait of Pam

drawing Pam

iPad portrait of Miki

iPad portrait of Yassi

NEXT OPEN STUDIOS:

Saturday and Sunday, April 7th and 8th, 2018
Noon – 6pm

1890 Bryant St., Studio 306, San Francisco, California 94110
Click here for directions.

Please visit my Spring 2018 Open Studio Art Exhibition.

Gustavo: Una Impresión 2017,vdigital painting (Corel Painter, Wacom tablet, iMac)

Gustavo: Una Impresión 2017, 38″ x 38″, pigment ink and acrylic media on canvas

This painting is an impression of my friend and fellow artist Gustavo Ramos Rivera, who also has a studio in the 1890 Bryant Building where my art studio is located. Gustavo’s fabulous use of bold color and texture is an inspiration to me and that is reflected in this work. I look up to Gustavo and this painting is an homage to his skill, character and eloquence that manifests itself in all aspects of his work and life.

The digital component of this painting was created using Corel Painter 2018 on an iMac with a Wacom Intuos Pro pen tablet. The top image shows the full digital composition. It was then printed on canvas using pigment inks and hand-embellished with physical media (acrylic varnishes, gels and paint). The lower image shows the square crop I chose for the pigment print.

I painted live at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley with the Tommy Igoe Groove Conspiracy in an Art of Jazz concert. I worked on three media: paper, canvas and iPad (glass). The image shown here is my iPad sketch of Tommy in action. Also see the Art of Jazz Tour page.

Setting up before the show.

Painting during the show.

The final iPad artwork.

This video shows me painting the scene at the IGNITE! Art + Innovation arts festival in the Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, California, on October 14th, 2017. The band playing, who are depicted in my painting, are the Hot Club of San Francisco.

Thank you to the great team who produced this event and made it possible, including the Firehouse Arts Center, The City of Pleasanton and the Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council.

This video shares the keynote presentation, Portrait of a Risk-Taker: An Artist’s Risk Management Journey, I delivered at the 2017 RISK Summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 18th, 2017. The theme of this year’s conference was art and they invited me to share an artist’s perspective on risk.

I started with a brief introduction to my personal journey of risk-management, explaining how I transformed from Physicist to Artist.

I then provided a historical context to the relationship of art and risk, highlighting a few Art History Risk Champions, from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. In this segment I explained how, without risk, there is no art. An artist is a risk champion who both embraces and manages risk.

In the final segment I created a live portrait of an audience member, using an iPad Pro 12.9, Apple Pencil and the app Procreate. As I painted the portrait I reviewed and demonstrated the risk-management strategies I employ as an artist. They are listed here (below) as numbered in my slide show with one extra added and a couple slightly modified (as with all art, a list like this is always a work in progress!):
#1 100% Commitment
#2 Mise En Place
#3 Fill in the Blank
#4 Think Ahead
#5 Get on the Dance Floor
Start Rough
#6 See as Abstract
#7 No Undo
#8 Vive la Variété
#9 Step Away
#10 Reframe the Question
#11 Say the Most with the Least
#12 Make Marks Meaningful
#13 Less is More
#14 Fini…for Now
#15 Enjoy the Journey

If you just want to head straight for the dancing, final portrait and time-lapse replay of the portrait, then that all happens in the final two minutes!

The music featured in this video includes:
“Moten Swing” by Bennie Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra (1932)
“Roll Over Beethoven” by Chuck Berry (1956)
“Get Up Offa That Thing” by James Brown (1976)

The conference took place in the historic PSFS (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society) Building, now the Loews Philadelphia Hotel. Opened in 1932, it was the first Modernist skyscraper in the United States (and one of the first to have air-conditioning). Designed by architects George Howe and William Lescaze, the building, constructed in the midst of the Great Depression, used marbles, granites and rare woods sourced from 32 countries!

Big thanks to Melanie and her wonderful team at the Nonprofit Risk Management Center who put this conference together and inviting me to be their keynote speaker.

Thanks to Mary Ann for being such an inspiring and brave portrait subject!

It was super fun and inspiring to see your presentation.
~ Erin G.

Wonderful presentation!
~ Richard S.

I am available to be a keynote speaker at conferences, meetings, off-sites and retreats. I adapt my presentation to each event and can focus, to share a few examples, on the relationship between art and technology, how to find your creative flow, taking the creative leap, risk-taking in art process, the anatomy of a portrait, painting with purpose, intentionality in artistic process, the balance of structure and chaos in creativity, the roles of serendipity and spontaneity in painting, and so on.

The New View Paintings by Jeremy Sutton
First featured artist to kick off the Martini Splash Third Friday Art Reception
Friday, August 18th, 2017, 5:30-7:30pm
Bloomingdale’s, The New View, San Francisco on 2 (2nd Floor Designer Ready to Wear Department), 845 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94013

Paintings that were displayed in this exhibition included the following (shown here with some photos from the reception):

San Francisco Scenes
(and other Cityscapes)

Cable Car on Powell

30″ x 40″ pigment print and acrylic on canvas, 2016

Jeremy with Catherine, Christina and Shahla

Looking Down Divis’

33″ x 47″, pigment ink print and acrylic paint on canvas, 2013

Sarah, Deborah, Jeremy and Katia

Golden Gate Bridge

47″ x 33″, pigment ink print and acrylic paint on canvas, 2014

Lights on Mid-Market

23″ x 18″, pigment ink print on canvas, 2009

Catherine with “Lights on Mid-Market”

Avalon Olds’

36″x 26″, pigment ink print and acrylic paint on canvas, 2014

Katia matching “Avalon Olds”

Shahasp

Shahasp

48″ x 48″ acrylic on canvas, 2017

Shahasp study

24″ x 36″ acrylic and pigment inks on canvas, 2016

Afternoons

Jeremy taking with Monica and Germaine

Cherwell Idyll

40″ x 30″, pigment ink print and acrylic paint on canvas, 2017

Summer Afternoon

38″ x 63″, pigment ink print and acrylic paint on canvas, 2005

Gatsby Stroll

23″ x 18″, pigment ink print and acrylic on canvas, 2015

Martha and Michelle and the Afternoons

Musicians and Dancers

Destiny and Hero looking at the Musicians and Dancers

Frankie Centennial Dance Jam

38″ x 19″, pigment ink print and acrylic on canvas, 2014

Flamenco Fiesta at El Farol

24″ x 19″, pigment ink print and acrylic on canvas, 2012

Luxomatics at Club Deluxe

15″ x 10″, Caran D’Ashe Neocolour wax crayon and red wine on paper, 2016

“Parallel Play”

9.5″ x 7.5″, pigment ink print on canvas, 2017

Sarah and Peggy looking at “Parallel Play”

Erv

26″ x 40″, pigment ink print and acrylic paint on canvas, 2014

Simon in front of “Erv”