Photo: Carolina Andrade

Jon Claytor is a Sackville, New Brunswick-based artist, painter, and writer. He holds an MFA from York University (2012), attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (1991), and holds a BFA Mount Allison University (1998).

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Jon’s work ranges from oil painting and watercolour to comics. He recently published his first graphic novel, Take The Long Way Home (Conundrum Press) and regularly publishes illustrated interviews for CBC Nova Scotia. Jon has worked with Ingram Gallery in Toronto and has participated in the Casiar Cannery Residency Prince Rupert, BC in 2019 and the Skeleton Park Arts Fest Virtual Residency in Kingston, ON in 2020.

 

Jon has received numerous New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) Creation Grants and has recently been awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Grant. In 2004 he was nominated for a Juno Award for the cover of Gord Downie's “Battle Of The Nudes”. 

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​Jon is a father to five children and, for him, being a father is the biggest part of being an artist.