David Clayton is an artist, teacher, and writer based in Princeton, NJ. He serves as Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Sacred Arts at Pontifex University and Artist-in-Residence of the Scala Foundation, a non-profit focused on cultural transformation through beauty in education and liturgy. Born and raised in England, Clayton has an MA in Materials Science from Oxford University. He has authored several books, including “The Little Oratory” and “The Way of Beauty.” He studied Byzantine iconography under Aidan Hart, the British master, and classical naturalism and portraiture in Florence, Italy. His art hangs in churches in the US and UK, with notable commissions for the Brompton Oratory in London, Pluscarden Monastery in Scotland and Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire, where he was Artist-in-Residence and Teaching Fellow for seven years. He has also illustrated several books, including Scott Hahn’s “God’s Covenant With You.”
