Hannah
Sutton
“Self Portrait”
Oil on canvas
Biography
Hannah Sutton (b. 1989, Australia) is a classical realist painter based in Florence, Italy. Graduating from the 3-year Drawing and Painting Certificate Program at The Florence Academy of Art in 2020, Hannah completed the year-long graduate-in-residence program (known as the ‘Fourth Year Prize’) before working as a Principal Instructor in the first-year Intensive Drawing program and the Six-week Intensive Course. She is currently the Program Director of the 6-week Intensive Drawing, Painting, and Art History course.
In her hometown of St. Arnaud, Australia, Hannah was the youngest member of the local art group, where at 13 she began participating in art shows and life drawing classes. She graduated with a Bachelor of Communication Design at RMIT University, Melbourne in 2010 and for 7 years was a freelance designer and artist in Melbourne before seeking a return to classical painting and drawing, moving permanently to Florence in 2017. Today Hannah paints commissions and private work in her studio in Florence. Her subjects include still life, portraits, figures, and landscapes and are in private collections throughout Australia, the UK, the US and Europe. She has exhibited both in Australia and Italy.
