Clayton Pond was a well-known artist in New York City’s Soho artist neighborhood when he and his family moved to what would become the City of Milton in 1955. His wife Marjorie, a vice president for Neenah Paper a former division of Kimberly Clark, was relocated to this area. Clayton was a pioneering resident of the Soho art district for some 30 years.
Once in Milton, he installed his studio on the lower level of his home and continued to produce his distinctively personal paintings in oil and acrylic on canvas and other surfaces. He is known for his very large colorful canvases and his limited-edition silkscreen prints. He was an early adopter of silkscreen printing, or serigraphy. His limited-edition prints often highlight his larger works. Pond has developed a unique and easily recognizable style focusing on everyday items.
Clayton Pond is best known for his use of color to create emotional responses. His paintings feature unique color harmonies that generate excitement. He focuses on manmade subjects, not landscapes.
“I think of color as a fourth dimension,” he says. “No single color by itself means very much. Putting the right colors together can create visual stimulation and energy. I like to see how colors vibrate when next to each other.”
Clayton was born in Bayside, New York, and raised in Port Washington on Long Island. He attended Hiram College near Cleveland, Ohio, where he took some art courses and then transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1964. He entered graduate school at Pratt Institute in New York City where he began to develop his unique interest in the use of bright, intense (he calls them happy) color relationships. While earning his graduate degree he also taught himself the serigraph…
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