Jacob Sutton Photography

Paintings and Drawings

by

Jacob Sutton

Russia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, India, Ireland and UK

including

British Writers

Claude Sutton oil on canvas 40x40 1990

Young Afghan woman in Kabul charcoal 30x24 inches 2004

William Shakespeare charcoal 30x24inches 1997

Lemon and Friends. Oil on canvas 50x40 inches 2012

Narberth Girl oil on canvas 2012

Oh Wales. oil on canvas 30x40 inches 2014

Two sisters in Jalalabad Afghanistan charcoal 30x24 2001

Lebanese woman in Tyre South Lebanon, Charcoal 30x24 inches 2014

Mother and child in Byblos Lebanon Charcoal 30x24 inches 2014

Jacob drawing a charcoal portrait in Beirut Lebanon 2014

Its a lovely day. oil on canvas 40x40 inches 2012

Lebanese man charcoal 30x24 inches 2014

Two books of portraits by Jacob Sutton published for the British Museum

Young girl in Kabul Afghanistan with her charcoal portrait 2005

Richmond London ink & wash 24x30 inches 2000

Young Afghan girl with her portrait. Afghanistan 2004

Home in winter in Kabul Afghan man with his portrait 2005

Jacob drawing a charcoal of one of Tony Blairs secretaries in 10 Downing St London 2007

I think I see her. Welsh Goose charcoal 30x24 inches 2000

Welsh sailing, ink & wash 24x30 inches 2000

Syrian mother and her children on the Lebanese/Syrian border with Jacob 2014

Sergey in the Russian village of Prozorovo 450 kms north of Moscow. 30x24 inches 2012

The Penally Reeds. Wales ink & wash 24x30inches 2000

3 year old girl in Tyre South Lebanon charcoal 30x24 inches 2014

Young girl with her portrait in Afghanistan 2004

Shah Mahmood charcoal 30x24 inches Kabul Afghanistan 2005

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan charcoal 30x24 inches 2013

Young girl and her portrait Tyre South Lebanon 2014

How nice to see them. Oil on canvas 36x36 inches 2012

Jacob drawing in Prozorovo village Russia 450 kms north of Moscow 2012

Let me make a Sound, oil on wood 48x100inches France 2017

Mother and daughter in Byblos Lebanon charcoal 30x24 inches 2014

Jacob drawing a portrait in Kabul Afghanistan 2005

I`m coming! Oil on canvas 24x30 inches 2000

So proud to be a goose. Charcoal 30x24 inches 2000

They are going home to bed, me too. Oil on canvas 40x40 inches 2012

Claude Sutton. Oil on Canvas 30x30 inches 1990

A row by Richmond Bridge. lnk & wash 30x24 inches 2000

Its good to be Welsh. Oil on canvas 30x50 inches 2000

Just been milked, charcoal 30x24 inches 2000

Russian Priest charcoal Russia 30x24 2012

Russian in village of Prozorovo Russia, charcoal 30x24 2012

Russian cook in guest house Prozorovo, Russia 30x24 inches 2012

I like making shadows. Wales. Oil on canvas 30x40 inches 2015

Young Afghan boy in Kabul Afghanistan 2005

Jacob drawing during a portrait class in Kabul Afghanistan 2005

Let me play for you. Oil on wood. 48x100 inches 2017 France

Father Anatoliy Russia charcoal 30x24inches 2012

Young Afghan girl in Kabul Afghanistan 2005

Jacob as a young boy in London

Jacob drawing an Afghan man at home in Kabul Afghanistan 2005

Jacob drawing two Syrian children on the border with Lebanon 2014

I think its lunch time. oil on canvas 50x40inches 2000

Jacob drawing in the Lebanon 2014

Lovely to see you! oil on canvas 40x50 inches 2012

Mother and son in Beirut, Lebanon charcoal 30x24 inches 2014

A lovely day to be a goose! 50x50inches 2000

Jacob drawing in India 2006

Indian man in Kerala India charcoal 30x24 inches 2006

I need milking! oil on canvas 2000

The feet relaxing charcoal 24x30inches 1998

Jacob drawing in Beirut 2014

Lebanese man in Beirut charcoal 30x24 inches 2014

Church in County Wicklow Ireland charcoal 30x24 inches 1994

Jacob drawing a Syrian woman near the Lebanese-Syrian border 2014

Dun Laighaire Dublin Ireland charcoal 30x24 inches 1994

The sunrise gets a visit West Wales charcoal 24x30 inches 1998

Mother and daughter in Byblos Lebanon. Charcoal 30x24 inches 2014

Indian fishermen Cochin Kerala India. Charcoal 24x30 inches 2006

Nadiy Russian boy in village of Prozorovo Russia. Charcoal 30x24 inches 2012

Little boat & cow Llangum West Wales. Charcoal 24x30 1998

Grandfather with his grand daughter in Kabul and his charcoal portrait 2004

jacob drawing in India 2006

Lebanese woman in Beirut charcoal 2014

Might be a nice day. Oil on canvas 2011

Fedor in Prozorovo Russia Charcoal 30x24 2012

Dublin tea pot 1995 charcoal 30x24 inches

Jacob drawing a young woman at home in Kabul Afghanistan 2004

The olive oil bottle. oil on canvas 50x40 inches 2012

Whats over there? 30x30 oil on canvas 2012

Portrait class in Myshkin Russia 2012

Farmers son oil on canvas 2000

Have you a carrot? oil on canvas 2012

Waiting for the fishing boat, Calais France oil on canvas 2011

Oil on canvas 2011

Claude Sutton just after bath, oil on canvas 1989

Claude Sutton oil on canvas 1988

Jacob drawing in the post room 10 downing St London 2007

Where is she? oil on canvas 20x30 inches 2016

Shoe shine boy in Beirut charcoal 30x24 2014

British Writers

Charles.S.Smith CEO of The Royal Academy of Arts London

Jake Sutton has an extraordinarily quick and fluent way of drawing and enjoys the challenge of capturing the character of people in a single sitting, trying to convey not just what they look like but who they are.
Thanks to the organisers of two major literary festivals, both of which attract large numbers of key British speakers, he has had good access to a wide range of prominent writers and thinkers, whom he has related to previous drawings he has done of Shakespeare. So here we have quick sketches of many of our best known public intellectuals, including Jonathan Bate, who has done so much to interpret Shakespeare to new audiences, and Anthony Grayling, one of our best known philosophers, Stephen Fry looking as ever eternally gloomy, and Claire Tomalin in the year in which she published her magisterial study of Charles Dickens.
What the volume conveys is the way in which writers now enjoy a much more public presence through their performance at festivals, talking directly to their audiences rather than just working through the medium of print. The spoken language is, once again, becoming as important as the written.
Alongside the development of online experience through such media as YouTube, there is a hunger for a direct relationship with writers and artists, who move around the country like travelling players. Jake Sutton vividly communicates the way in which we live in a new Shakespearean age.

The following charcoal portraits were done at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2009, The The Guardian Hay Literary Festival 2009 & The Daily Telegraph Hay Literary Festival 2012. All portraits are 30x24 inches