Kirk Sutherland is a Toronto based, Canadian-born, Scottish artist. Sutherland has exhibited his work under the representation of many art galleries internationally over the last 30 years. Many of his pieces are included in a multitude of private, public and corporate collections globally.
Sutherland graduated high-honours from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) in 1991, majoring in Contemporary Art and Drawing and Painting from the Faculty of Experiential Arts.
Kirk Sutherland is a renowned colourist who was born with synesthesia. This blending of senses very much enhances his perception of colour and his overall creative process.
Kirk Sutherland is also known for working with the Hollywood Film Industry, creating and designing public art in urban environments and working with the music industry creating album cover designs.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I feel my creative process bridges and somewhat amalgamates both intuitive, and conscious realities. My paintings do not imitate life, but perhaps harness the energy and the essence of life.
In life, we are conscious of present realities, yet travel forward with no actual conception of what to expect. My art-making process seems to find itself in the same unpredictable reality.
For I surrender a degree of control, yet I profoundly feel that my work does not fall into what could be defined as random or chance.
Making art to me is a necessary condition and purely instinctual. I feel the process is equally as important as the finished piece and outcome. It is in actuality a spiritual, ethereal experience. I find myself channeling to a higher energy or light, in which the medium, the action and the paintbrush act as an umbilical between the material world, the essence, and the Soul.
I paint the unseen world of feelings, emotions and thoughts. Inherently my creative process dwells in the metaphysical realm of energy and frequency.
I was born with synesthesia. I witness a domain where colours have flavours, sounds take form and experiences and reality exist in a sphere of duality and purpose.