Clayton-Smith is interested in the way we visualise, remember and record the world and our feelings. She collects remnants of all the diverse ways we see: online imagery, torn pages from magazines, physical photographs, snapshots – digital and physical artifacts collected and stored alongside her own internally imprinted visual memories. Collecting is a means of processing and ordering.
These fragmentary resources are recycled and recreated into something new and fresh - multi-layered mixes of memory, observation and re-creation of the seen and found. Her imagined landscapes, or mindscapes, are a synthesis of constructed visual memories. Surface; stillness and motion collide.
Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, intense colour jumps and surface components cohere to poetically open out a psychological space, where response is felt and nothing is absolute.