Sculptor in wood who trained as a nurse at Westminster Hospital, eventually becoming a freelance artist, working for Independent Television and teaching art part-time. After marrying the architect Peter Sutton and moving to Nigeria for three years she studied indigo dying and began sculpting. Back in England, after her three children were at school, Sutton gained a degree in fine art, specialising in sculpture, from Exeter College of Art, her thesis being on the history of the carved, foliated head. She produced monumental, serene heads from driftwood, her empathy with the material stemming from her forester family background in Gloucestershire. Sutton’s group shows included Stonelane Gardens, Chagford, 1992; John Gillo Gallery, Dartmouth, 1994–7; and Walton Contemporary Art, 1996–8.