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 ...

Holding the Light: Reflections on In Between

I n Between feels like one of those familiar hillsides near my dad’s studio that keeps returning to his work. The light is shifting, the season is shifting, and even the mood of the day feels like it’s in transition. He catches it right ...

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 ...

In the Studio with Bill Suttles (age 95)

Here’s a look at my dad working in the studio — talking through his process as he lays down shapes, colors, and rhythm. After the live moment, I added close-ups of his easel, palette, brushes, knives, and sponges… all the tools ...

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, ...

Appalachian Sketch — The Mountain Line Remembered

My father has always returned to the mountains like an old friend. Appalachian Sketch is one of those moments — quiet, direct, and full of air. The pencil lines breathe; the washes drift across the paper the way morning fog settles in the ...

Inside the Studio: A Quiet Color Mixing Moment with Bill Suttles

Inside the Studio: Bill Suttles’ Color Mixing MomentSome moments in the studio don’t need explanation — they simply are. While sorting images today, I came across this clip of Dad mixing colors on the palette, and it stopped me. ...

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 ...

Suttles Arts Estate & Legacy Downsizing Project

The Suttles Arts Estate & Legacy Downsizing ProjectFor more than seventy years, the Suttles family has created, collected, and shared art from studios in the Southeast — paintings, pottery, photographs, and the beautiful objects that ...

October 22 — My Father, Bill Suttles, at Ninety-Five

T oday, my father turns ninety-five.October 22, 1930 — a date that’s easy to remember, harder to grasp when I look across the decades of work stacked around the studio. Paintings, drawings, ideas still forming — all of them ...

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 ...

The Suttles Continuum — A New Chapter Begins

a r t Suttles — Bill Suttles Estate & LegacyThe Continuum began as a way to organize hundreds of paintings, drawings, and collages created by my father, Bill Suttles, and the ceramic works of my mother, Pat Suttles. What it became is ...

Dad in his Video Demonstrates How He Adds Texture to His Artworks

When I listen to my father talk about painting, even a brief moment like this one about surface preparation, it reminds me that for him, the art always began before the brush touched the paint. In this short video, “Bill Suttles Talks About ...

Swim Fins, Key West

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Jubilation

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Here's The Thing

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A View Number 02

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Bill's 1948 Sketchbook

In The Good Times

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Balancing Act No. 02

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Land of Plenty

“Land of Plenty” — 12x12 pastel on paperThis is one of my dad’s small pastel landscapes, and it shows how confidently he could build a scene with just color and gesture. I’m adding it here as part of the ongoing archive ...

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 ...

Border

Border — Pastel on Paper, 12 x 16 (17 x 21 in Custom White Wood Frame with Black Liner, Museum Glass)This is one of Dad’s pastels that feels almost like wind in motion. When I’m looking through his archive, pieces like Border ...

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 ...