Bill Suttles Abstract Collection

Bill Suttles’ abstract works represent the purest expression of his instincts as a colorist and composer. These paintings move beyond representation into layered surfaces, gestural rhythms, and bold explorations of energy, emotion, and structure.

Bill Suttles Abstract Collection

Suttles’ abstract paintings reflect a lifelong exploration of rhythm, color, and form. These works push beyond representation into a world of texture, gesture, and layered meaning. Drawing from collage, mixed media, and intuitive mark-making, each piece becomes a dialogue between spontaneity and control—where bold shapes collide with delicate surface details.

This collection highlights Suttles’ deep interest in process and experimentation. Many works incorporate textured grounds, transferred patterns, or unexpected materials, revealing the tactile, hands-on nature of his studio practice. Others explore emotional color fields, using saturated hues and subtle transparencies to create depth without literal space.

Highly sought after by collectors, these abstract works bridge contemporary design and art-historical sophistication. They invite viewers not to interpret, but to experience—immersive environments where color becomes energy and structure becomes feeling.

Borderland — Edges in Motion

B orderland feels like a meeting place — where two moods share the same surface without competing. My father continues to work the edges until they start to speak, letting color press forward and then rest. The tension here is gentle; it reads ...

Climbing Through Color: Reflections on Summit

S ome paintings feel like they arrive mid-stride, the way weather moves through the mountains around Dad’s studio. Summit has that same sense of motion—like the painting was made in the middle of climbing toward something open and ...

Beginning Again — Return & Renewal

B eginning Again feels like a restart you can see — lines finding their place, colors testing the air, then settling with intention. My father continues to trust the moment when a piece asks to begin over; he doesn’t force the turn, he ...

Basis — Structure and Calm

B asis feels like the moment a structure becomes itself. Color settles into place, edges agree on their roles, and the whole finds a grounded tempo. My father has a way of letting the composition choose its own center — he listens, adjusts, ...

Decision — Stillness and Direction

Decision has the quiet of a held breath. Not a stop — more like the pause before something begins.When I look at it, I think about the times I’ve seen my father lean back from the easel. He studies what’s there, but more than that, ...

All Together — Rhythm, Color, and Balance

My father has always been able to make stillness feel alive. All Together carries that same quiet rhythm — shapes leaning toward one another, colors finding their place in a conversation that never quite ends. When I look at this piece, I see ...

Its All Good by Bill Suttles

Color and Calm in Balance. “It’s All Good” by Bill Suttles. Some works feel like personal reminders. It’s All Good came from a morning when my father stood back from a study and smiled—not because it was finished, ...

Edgewater — Rhythm and Reflection

E dgewater carries the rhythm of still water and the quiet tension that exists just beneath its surface. Shapes lean into one another, drifting between reflection and movement. My father has a way of painting silence — not as emptiness, but as ...

Remembering Mountains Abstract by Bill Suttles

Remembering Mountains — An Abstract Reflection of Memory and PlaceWhen I share Remembering Mountains, I’m not just showing one of my father’s paintings—I’m opening a part of his story. Bill Suttles is 95 years old, and ...

Jubilation

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Here's The Thing

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In The Good Times

Original 7.5x11.5-inch acrylic on Paper....Available Directly Off The Easel....Unframed

Balancing Act No. 02

Original 7.5x11.5-inch acrylic on Paper....Available Directly Off The Easel....Unframed

It's About Time

It’s About Time — 8 x 10.5 inches, Acrylic on PaperThis piece is another example of my dad pushing color and gesture right to the edge of abstraction while still keeping just enough structure to hold the eye. When I archive works like ...

Industrial Ember

Industrial Ember — 12 x 12 inches, Mixed Media with CollageThis is one of those pieces where my dad’s love of texture really takes over. The collage elements spark against the painted surface—almost like bits of machinery or ...

Tattered Flag Number 09

Tattered Flag Number 09 — Mixed Collage on Paper, 11.5 x 7.5Here’s another one of Dad’s pieces that always stops me for a second—Tattered Flag Number 09. When I pull this one out of the archive, what hits me first is how many ...

Good Intensions

Good Intentions — Acrylic & Mixed Media Collage on Paper, 7.5 x 11 inHere’s Good Intentions, one of Dad’s smaller mixed-media collages that always makes me smile. Pieces like this remind me how naturally he blends playfulness ...

Bedrock

Bedrock — 8 x 10.5 in, Mixed Media Collage on PaperThis is Bedrock, a small but powerful mixed-media piece my dad made that shows just how far he can push color without ever losing balance. Even in something this compact, he layers paint, ...

Force Field

ForcefieldOriginal 8 x 10.5 inch mixed media on paperPieces like Forcefield always remind me how fearless my dad has been with color his entire life. He doesn’t ease into intensity—he goes straight for it, letting those saturated reds, ...

Juxtaposed

JuxtaposedOriginal 12 x 9 inch mixed media with collage on paperHere’s another one of Dad’s pieces where the title really fits—everything in this artwork is about contrast and placement. Juxtaposed feels like a quiet experiment ...

Deep Water Line

Deep Water LineOriginal 9 x 12 inch mixed media on paper — UntitledThis piece has such a strong sense of movement and pressure—dark blues washing downward, that shock of turquoise holding its ground, and the earthy olive tones settling ...

Rust & Rhythm

Rust and Rhythm Original 10 x 10 inch mixed media on paperEvery now and then I come across one of my dad’s pieces that feels like it was built out of sound as much as shape, and Rust and Rhythm is one of those. The scraped lines, the muted ...

Strata

STRATA12 x 12 inches, mixed media on paper — Sold“Strata” is one of those pieces where my dad’s instinct for building a painting from the ground up—literally in layers—really shows. He stacks color the way some ...