Inge Clayton 1942-2010. Painter, designer, sculptor and collagist, born in Salzburg, Austria then settled in London in 1961. She has held several solo shows in her native Austria and Germany and has also exhibited at the Royal Academy as well as in many London galleries.
Clayton worked as an interior architect and a jewellery designer on first arriving in the UK and from 1976-84 she studied collage with Jack Yates and life drawing with John Nicholl at the Camden Arts Centre, as well as printmaking at St. Albans under Peter Jaques.
Examples of her work are in the collection of Keele University, and the Marie Currie Foundation. More recently she has shown solo at the Catto Gallery, Hampstead, London. Much of her work shows her European background and one can easily recognize the influence of Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Kokoschka, and George Grosz
