Philip Sutton RA (born 20 October 1928)[1] is a British artist active since the 1950s, best known for his large and highly coloured paintings of landscape, flowers and people.

After leaving school at the age of 14, he worked in a drawing office before carrying out three years' National Service in the Royal Air Force (RAF), during which he was involved in the Berlin Airlift.

[3] At the school's degree show in 1953, Slade professor William Coldstream introduced Sutton's work to art dealers Henry Roland and Gustave Delbanco.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Sutton turned his hand to design, creating a poster and banner for the 1979 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, a tapestry for Shell in 1984, and the logo for Investors in Industry the following year.

This area extended to include ceramics – a wall of tiles for NMB Bank, Amsterdam – posters for London Transport,[6] and postage stamps for Royal Mail.