Sea Breeze - Modern Figurative

Sea Breeze is an original mixed media on paper, measuring 8x10.5inches. The piece is presented unframed, directly off the easel, ready to be framed to your personal taste..
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Sea Breeze by Bill Suttles (95, six-decade career) — an abstract figurative work blending coral, crimson, and gesture to suggest the human form carried on color and motion.
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From Bill Suttles’ Modern Figurative Collection, this work reflects his six decades of painting professionally across the Southeast. Bill graduated the American Academy of Art in Chicago in 1950 and credits the Art Institute’s Impressionist Collection, Wolf Kahn, Irwin Greenberg, and Coralie Tweed as key influences.

Suttles is recognized for his painterly approach that bridges abstract expressionism and impressionism, working in pastels, oils, acrylics, charcoal, and markers. Celebrated for his expert use of color, he creates works that evoke both the raw emotional intensity of abstraction and the atmospheric beauty of impressionism, inviting viewers into a layered, resonant experience.

His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the Southeast, including the River Gallery (Chattanooga), The District Gallery (Knoxville), and the Blue Ridge Mountain Arts Association. He has also received recognition in The Pastel Journal and the Southeastern Pastel Society.

Each piece offered is an authentic work by Bill Suttles, a Georgia-based artist whose career began in illustration for Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines in the 1960s before turning full-time to fine art.