My artwork is about our abilities to create our own stories. Layering and juxtaposition are central to my treatment of photos, symbols, designs, and texts. I create a belonging layer, then quilting layer, followed by a flourishing & authentic layer. I create one layer atop the other because we have to accept yesterday.

These layers create a density reflective of circumstances that can’t be removed. As a result, raised paint and layered textures are seen in the top portrait layers and read as tattoos & scaring. I use these abstract roles as factors and forces actively describing and forging selves. The result is a compilation of unintended art events created by the addition, subtraction, leaving and retrieving necessary to define an individual-self.

Revealing emotional subpoenas choreographed by contemporary society, my work echoes opportunities and moments in life urging us forward & continuing to inspire us to define our own beauty through living and create our own stories.

You sense what people call passion” when you are around Clayton Singleton. This Virginia resident’s blend of verbal and visual art inspires, motivates and educates. He has a BA from Virginia Wesleyan University and a Masters of Education from Regent University and has been noted in many publications ranging from The Virginian Pilot, Time magazine, and covers of Distinction and VEER magazines. Clayton has created public art, won numerous awards, produced several solo and group shows, in addition curating exhibitions for other artists.

Currently Clayton is Department Chair of Fine Arts at Lake Taylor High School in Norfolk, VA where he assisted in rewriting Norfolk Public Schools visual arts curriculum.