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Welcome to Lesley Clayton Arts.
My love of nature feeds and inspires my work.
During my fine art degree, I specialised in Printmaking. I find process very important to my art. I have been a teacher of art for many years, during that time I enjoyed sharing these skills. Now retired from teaching, I have the time to experiment with my own creative ideas and also explore the nature on my door step along with my dog for company. Now living the dream and making art in South West Scotland in my studio at home with only cows for neighbours!
Specialising in ceramics and painting, as one feeds the other. Ceramics act as canvas for my sketches or the paintings become finished pieces. Sometimes the shape of a vase will inspire a series of ceramics that steer the composition of my sketches.
I make original handmade stoneware pots thrown on the potter’s wheel. I am inspired by colour and patterns in the landscape or close up textures and shapes made by water on the beach at my feet. The pots I make become surfaces to decorate with colour and textural marks of underglaze and coloured slips, just in the same way as a canvas for painting would be used.
My love of nature feeds and inspires my work.
During my fine art degree, I specialised in Printmaking. I find process very important to my art. I have been a teacher of art for many years, during that time I enjoyed sharing these skills. Now retired from teaching, I have the time to experiment with my own creative ideas and also explore the nature on my door step along with my dog for company. Now living the dream and making art in South West Scotland in my studio at home with only cows for neighbours!
Specialising in ceramics and painting, as one feeds the other. Ceramics act as canvas for my sketches or the paintings become finished pieces. Sometimes the shape of a vase will inspire a series of ceramics that steer the composition of my sketches.
I make original handmade stoneware pots thrown on the potter’s wheel. I am inspired by colour and patterns in the landscape or close up textures and shapes made by water on the beach at my feet. The pots I make become surfaces to decorate with colour and textural marks of underglaze and coloured slips, just in the same way as a canvas for painting would be used.
