INGE CLAYTON

Inge Clayton has lived and worked in London since arriving from Austria in the sixties.

She studied life drawing, collage and printmaking at the Camden Arts Centre and soon developed her individual style, though traditional concepts of beauty do not interest her.

British critics are often quick to point out the European heritage in this painter's work and have likened her to artists such as Otto Dix, Kokoschka, and perhaps George Grosz, but her nudes are sensuous and painterly in style, very much her own. Above all this connection to her roots is the most striking when one considers how powerful her nudes remain despite their naked or half-dressed abandonment and apparent vulnerability. There is nothing British and oblique about their gaze.  Her figures may look at you, unabashed, a little startled, or may prefer to contemplate some dark corners of their soul, amused, pensive, or even with genuine ennui.

Inge Clayton is a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy. Other notable exhibitions include the Royal Society of Art; Art for Equality at the ICA; Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart; The Camden Arts Centre; Lumley Cazalet; and Galerie Mozart-Salzburg.