“His mixed-media canvases are brilliant billows of color that can barely be
contained. ...These paintings are muscular. The color is bold, unafraid and
willing to be ugly. With so much going on here, the canvases could seem busy or
cluttered, but they don’t.”
Douglas McLennan, The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA,
Jan. 18, 1996
“Active surfaces with intensely colored and layered biomorphic
forms ... still rich in the language of Abstract Expressionism.”
Joanna Koss, Art Access, Seattle, WA, September
1996
"Clayton swaths his subjects in bright hues and broad strokes, lifts
them with sharp edges off muted floors, and moves us with primal
pulses of silent color."
Steve Reed, The Beachcomber, Vashon, WA, March 2000
30+
Years in a Nutshell - History and development of
my painting, along with a little philosophy and personal history
