Bill's painterly landscapes and figurative works in oil and pastel have appeared in galleries around the Southeast for six decades. He graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago in 1950 and credits the great Impressionist Collection at Chicago's Art Institute and artists Wolf Kahn, Irwin Greenberg, and Coralie Tweed as inspiration for his life's work.

1950 - 2000
After school, Bill moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he met and married Pat Noland. They began a family and pursued their art careers; Bill, his painting, Pat Suttles, her ceramics. In the early years, Bill also worked as a commercial illustrator, creating much of the mid-century hand-illustrations for Delta and CocaCola advertising before printed photography became the norm.

2000
Soon after moving to Atlanta, Bill, a kid growing up in Kansas City, discovered the lush terrain of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. It was love at first sight. Both he and Pat were passionate lovers of nature. They both shared a dream of leaving the big city and having their own oasis in the hills of North Georgia. In 2000 that dream became a reality. Pat and Bill moved to Young Harris, North Georgia, to entirely devote themselves to the life of living and creating the art they loved in the environment they loved.

Today
Pat passed in 2012. At the young age of 91, Bill paints daily in his studio atop the local mountain known as Buzzard's Roost in the southern-most pass, Trackrock Gap, of the lower Appalachian Mountain Range. He continues to explore new techniques and media to create his expressionist and sometimes abstractive art.

Bill welcomes visitors to his Buzzards Roost Studio by Appointment

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With the arrival of COVID in 2019, Bill's son Todd, a fine-art-photographer, retired from Atlanta to join his dad on Buzzard's Roost. Todd now serves as the number one fan and webmaster of this website, BillSuttles.Com where both work on their art in the studio.