My name is Gabi Clayton. I’m a seventy-two year old visual artist, graphic designer and website designer; publisher/editor/co-owner of Mud Flat Press. I’m also the ‘digital publication manager’ of OLY ARTS magazine.
Some of my art is here on my gallery pages although it desperately needs updating. I’m a member of The Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts. I share my recent art on Facebook, Instagram, and on Threads. And I have a shop with some of my art on Redbubble.
I’m proudly a “red diaper baby,” raised on picket lines by my Communist, German Jewish refugee film editor father and my socialist feminist social worker mother. See my Encircled by My Cultural Heritage essay here.
I’m an atheist Quaker [nontheist / apatheist], a PFLAG member, and a pescatarian. I live with epilepsy and diabetes. My pronouns are she/her.
I’ve been married to writer and retired artist Alec Clayton for fifty + years. Here is a story he wrote about Everything for Everybody in New York City where we met in 1993. Alec is waiting for me to finish editing his 12th novel and a novella, plus he’s written two books about art. See more about his writing on his author page on Mud Flat Press here.
I’m the mother of two wonderful sons, Noel and Bill. Noel is a fabulous man. He is a stagehand, the Master Stage Carpenter at the Bagley stage of Seattle Repertory Theatre. He is married to our wonderful daughter-in-law Liz, a theater stage manager. They have three children: Leo, Jojo and Rosie. And Friar, a dog. They live in Shoreline, Washington which is about an hour and 20 minutes north of us if traffic is not heavy.
If you’re looking for our younger son Bill’s story, which I hope you will read, it is here until I redesign that part of my website. (Note: menu items on Bill’s Story pages that refer to pages outside of that section don’t work now because they refer to my old site.)
My extensive quote collection starts here. I add new quotes as I find them and as I have time.
I live in Olympia, Washington (USA) on the land of the st̓əč̓as (Steh-Chass) people of Budd Inlet, one of the seven Coast Salish bands of the present-day Squaxin Island tribe at the southern end of the Salish Sea.
Thanks for stopping by.
Gabi