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Jeff

10/7/2014

 
“I was raised in a typical, suburban Texas family and expected to go into business when I grew up, but I never felt like I fit that mold. I was always different, even as a child. My Aunt Janet ('Hurricane Janet', I call her) is an artist, and about every five years she breezed in and undid all the socialization my parents had drilled into me. She showed me a different way to live. I remember one day when I was a teenager. My parents and relatives were sitting around the table after dinner, so serious, so adult, so boring, and I looked out the window toward the driveway. There was Aunt Janet playing basketball with the younger cousins, running, jumping, shooting, laughing.  She played horribly, but she was so joyful, so alive.  I thought, ‘That’s the way I want to live.’ And I do. 

"I enjoy painting abstract forms, using bright colors, and being very free with my brush strokes. Making art means twice the work for half the pay, but I love it."

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Jeff works out of a studio at The Art Factory. 
Find him on FB at http://www.facebook.com/jeff.stayton

Enjoy the work of the woman who inspired him, Janet Stayton (aka "Hurricane Janet"), at http://www.janetstayton.com 
Jeffrey Stayton is also a writer.  His book, This Side of the River, will be released in February 2015:  "At the end of the Civil War, a group of young, angry Confederate widows band together, take up arms, and march north to Ohio intent to burn down the home of General William Tecumseh Sherman."
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