Untitled (Apple 12&13) hypha-marble-arch both balancing a fine line

both balancing a fine line which could tip at any moment

Emerging from my ongoing Mountain Rocks project

A desire to live longer

Meetings is a memento of overwhelming in a hostile

Using mystical symbolism and the visual poetry of a fabricated Otherworld

Untitled (Apple 12&13) hypha-marble-arch both balancing a fine lineWe encounter the apple acting as a conduit for experimentations in abstract expressionism, formal minimalism and distorted surrealism a container for mark making that could otherwise be perceived as radical landscapes or psychedelic, cosmic constructions. Drawings (as opposed to paintings, Clayton prefers to work directly onto the surface with oil pastel, soft pastel, graphite and, on occasion, oil paint applied directly from the tube) are housed