Bill Suttles Studio Videos Collection

These filmed stories bring viewers into Bill Suttles’ studio, capturing his voice, process, tools, and reflections. Each video offers an intimate look into the life and mind of a 95-year-old working artist.

Bill Suttles Studio Videos Collection

The Bill Suttles Video Collection invites viewers into the artist’s studio, revealing his process, philosophy, and daily creative practice. These videos blend Suttles’ recorded voice with close-up footage of palettes, brushes, textures, and works in progress, offering a living archive of his artistic life.

Some videos revisit paintings from the archive, using pan and zoom to highlight details while Suttles narrates their stories. Others show behind-the-scenes moments—mixing color, applying texture, or reflecting on decades of work.

This collection expands the archive beyond still images, preserving the sound, motion, and personality of the artist himself. It deepens the viewer’s connection to Suttles’ work and offers rare insight into the life of a modern American painter.

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill's 1948 Sketchbook

"Fly-In" Santee, S.C.

Fly-in, Santee, SC Original 12 x 12 inch oil on board (sold) Fine art giclée prints available by request.Growing up in the 1930s, my dad was absolutely captivated by aviation—especially the early biplanes that represented the cutting ...

In It Together

In It Together — A Look Inside the Making of the PaintingEvery now and then, I get the chance to film my dad while he’s working — not posed, not planned, just him in his natural rhythm at the table. The video below captures him in ...

Antibes Market

Antibes Market Bill Suttles talks about his painting "Antibes Market"

From Thought to Paper, A Video

From Thought, to Paper, to Paint

Start-to-Finish - 3hours in 3minutes

Bill Suttles Painting in His Studio Atop Buzzards Roost Today Bill Suttles works with ink, acrylic, line, and pastel to create this painting today. Watch the entire process from start to finish, 3hours condensed to 3minutes, in the video ...

Still Life Vase

Still Life Vase It is Way Back When Wednesday again. Last week I posted "Hurdy Gurdy Cat, Provence." Today's painting is an oil on canvas and dates back to the late 60s-early 1970s. It is large, measuring 47x31 inches. It has no title.My ...

SouthEastern Pastel Society Exhibition -2023

Hurdy Gurdy Cat, Provence It is Way Back When Wednesday again. Last week I posted "Facade, Provence." Today's painting also from Bill's 1998 trip to Provence is "Hurdy Gurdy Cat, Provence." It is an original pastel on paper measuring 18x24. It ...

February 21, 2023

Good Bye Atlantic Steel It is Way Back When Wednesday again. Last week I posted The Grinders, Maine. Today's post of an oil painting titled "Good Bye, Atlantic Steel" is about as far as one can move from the beauty of its scene to an ...

Bill Suttles 1948 Sketchbook (Age 18)

Bill Suttles 1948 Sketchbooh and Lizzie Miles It is Way Back When Wednesday again. This week I am posting a few more sketches from my dad's 1948 Sketchbook (he was 18). Even back then he loved jazz and has sketched several other jazz musicians ...

January 25, 2023

At Kastner's Store It is Way Back When Wednesday again. Last week I posted a sketch from my dad's 1948 sketchbook (he was 18)—today's painting, At Kastner's Store, was painted post-2000, but the memories associated with the Kastner's ...

Bill Talks About Technique used to Create Post & Gully

POST AND GULLY Pastel on paper measuring 8.5x10 inches; 15.375 x 17.375 x 1.5 inches -custom framed with 8-ply matte

Bill Talks About His Pastel - Far and Away

Far & Away This pastel on paper is from Bill's Contemporary Landscape Collection and measures 12x16 inches. "Far and Away" is fresh from Bill's easel and has yet to be framed or exhibited. Therefore, as are all paintings in ...

Bill Talks About His Art

Mixed Media on Paper13x11 inches

Sketch by Billl Suttles; age 18-20

WAY BACK WHEN WEDNESDAYS This is a sketch from Bill's sketchbook dated 1948-1951. That would make him 18-21 years old when this was created.He drew this scene while stationed in Puerto Rico on active duty during the Korean War. His role ...

Bill Talks About His Oil painting - Distant Hills

Distant Hills This acrylic on canvas panel is from Bill's Appalachian Landscape Collection and measures 12x16 inches.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

A NEW DAY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023Wishing everyone a happy new year filled with peace, joy, and prosperity. A New DayWhat better way to start the new year than with the spirit of this painting? It is a mixed medium on paper, ...

Bill Talks About His painting - Swim Fins, Key West

Swim Fins, Key West Swim Fins, Key West -an original mixed medium on paper by Bill Suttles15x11 mixed medium, 19x15 inches framed

Bill Talks About His Painting, Vestiges

Vestiges Vestiges -an original mixed medium on paper by Bill Suttles12x9 mixed medium, 19x16 inches framed

Suttles Art Exhibition Opens Today

EXHIBITION - JANUARY FEBRUARY 2022

The River Gallery Exhibition 2022 At The River Gallery, 400 East Second Street, Chattanooga, TN - 37403 - (423)-682-1287Opening Reception Friday, January 07, 2022, at 7 PM Deanna Clayton GlassBrad Robertson Fine ArtBill Suttles Fine ...

Welcome To The Suttles Art Journal

Spetember 01, 2022 Welcome to The Suttles Art JournalBy: Todd Suttles (son) September 1, 2022Starting this journal feels like opening a door I’ve been meaning to walk through for a long time. My dad, Bill Suttles, has been making art for ...