JoAnn Clayton

JoAnn Clayton is an outstanding colorist and one of the best abstract artists around. Her work is strong in design, texture, and especially in the use of resonating colors. Walt Bartman, Founder and Director, Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery, 2007

JoAnn Clayton Townsend’s stylish abstractions…call to mind Soulage and Motherwell in the use of calligraphic black. In “A Little Blue” there is a tamed wildness with blue peering over. “Janis” allows for more use of color and sgraffito. It is the conjunction of cubism and abstract expressionism.” The Georgetowner, October 2005

You might not have heard her name before, but Clayton-Townsend’s paintings are well worth a look. Washingtonian Magazine, January 2003

JoAnn Clayton (Townsend) studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art and Design with Sam Gilliam, at the Yellow Barn Studio with Helen Corning and Walt Bartman; and at the ArtWorks of Reston with Brenda Belfield, along with other art studies. She has a MA from George Washington University and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Recently, her work appeared on the cover of a volume of poetry, Habit of Fire.

SOLO EXHIBITS:

• Foundry Gallery, October 2006, An Uncommon Way
• Foundry Gallery, October 2005, Darks and White
• River Road Unitarian Church, Two Abstract Artists, January 2005
• Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, MD, January 2003, In the Abstract
• Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, MD, January 2001, The Joy of It