Gerda Mary Sutton (née Madgwick, 3 April 1923–30 September 2005) was a British-born atomic researcher and painter who became a naturalised citizen of France.

[2] She studied and worked in the atomic research field in Montreal, Canada, then in Harwell, England.

[3] Sutton studied art at the Académie André Lhote alongside William Klein, Frédéric Menguy and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

During the 1950s, she firstly painted in a realistic style, before producing cubist landscapes and expressionist characters.

[4] After the terrorist attacks in Paris in the mid-eighties and the Gulf War,[3][4] her works became more radical and featured "violent forms of abstraction and collage.