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Though Claytor's paintings have explored various subjects, he is perhaps best known for his paintings of individual subjects inspired by friends, family and moments in his childhood. Claytor's compositional style combines the abstract and figurative to heighten the feeling and mood of a work. The artist has expressed that his paintings are deliberately imperfect, and aim to convey a sense of fleeting time: "...the painting is never finished so much as paused, and, like a snapshot, only a moment is captured in an ever-changing life." Jon Claytor received his BFA from Mount Allison University in 1998. 

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