Roger Clayton
 

Roger Clayton grew up in Memphis. After college he moved to New York City to continue painting and studying art. After eight years he moved back to Tennessee, this time to Nashville. He has also made half dozen trips to Japan. These simple facts are what affects and inspires his work.  He has a unique eye for simplicity, color, content and form. 

 

“I like the brushwork of Sung artists in ancient China, using so few lines that you can count them. It was a line full of expression and spontaneity, invented to capture a spiritual essence. I also like the suibokuga paintings made by Zen monks in Japan. Though influenced by the Sung masters, their paintings were often imperfect, primitive, even ugly. I like that when you reduce most of the narrative details, you literally see into or through the nature of the image and hopefully, you again arrive back at its essence. These are qualities that I try to put in my paintings.”

 

 

Bear

Roger Clayton, 2005

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Clover

Roger Clayton, 2005

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Kyoto Bunny

Roger Clayton, 2005

9” x 12”

Gouache on Paper

$395

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Bunny Bear

Roger Clayton, 2005

9” x 12”

Gouache on Paper

$395

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Cotton

Roger Clayton, 2005

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Peach Boy

Roger Clayton, 2005

12” x 9”

Gouache on Paper

$395

 
 

Bear Bunny

Roger Clayton, 2005

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Shanghai

Roger Clayton, 2005

9” x 12”

Gouache on Paper

SOLD

 
 

Uncle Ed

Roger Clayton, 2005

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Yellow Bunny

Roger Clayton, 2005

12” x 9”

Gouache on Paper

SOLD

 
 
Older Works Still Available by Roger Clayton
 

A Frog Jumps In

Roger Clayton, 2002

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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A Flower's Scent

Roger Clayton, 2002

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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A Wishing Monkey

Roger Clayton, 2002

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Ginkakuji Bunny

Roger Clayton, 2002

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Kachoga

Roger Clayton, 2002

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Out On A Wire

Roger Clayton, 2002

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Bears

Roger Clayton, 2002

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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Sharing Peonies

Roger Clayton, 2002

16” x 20”

Oil on Canvas

$850

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More works by Roger Clayton available, just email us at art@tagartgallery.com

 

 

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