Jeff Layton, North American painter born in 1956. Style: Magical Realism

A painting for me wears many hats: aesthetics in design, color, and personal expression. It needs to be more than just a pretty face; it needs to be interesting and ambiguous. It must be metaphorical, which speaks to deeper things and explorative connections for the artist and the viewer. It also needs to resemble a human-made artifact, such as a painting. An art form that has grown in consciousness since the first cave painting and throughout history. It needs to be unique and unquestionably not artificial intelligence-derived. It needs to be a human talking to humans, an interactive creation.

Welcome to the Theater of my Mind

Paintings are watermarked on website only.




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"Pacific Northwest No2"
(22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).



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"Sunflower Time Dilation No2"
(22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).


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"Sunflower Time Dilation"
(15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"White Buffalo No. 2"
(22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"White Buffalo"
(30 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Rooted-to-Earth"
(22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Cancer Consumes the Gardener - DMT, the God molecule"
(22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Subjective Time Dilation"
(22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"North Carolina Dream" I dreamed I sailed the ocean and saw this." (22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Blue Ridge Mountains illumination"
(15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Journey On Winding Door County Road"
(22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Great Lakes"
(22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Poppies in the Sun"
(15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Irises in the Sun"
(15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Beauty and the Beast." (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Looking Through Another Mind's Eyes."
(15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Entanglement (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Dream, Consciousness Layering Moment Bubbles"
(15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

The phrase "Consciousness Layering Moment Bubbles" evokes a rich and complex understanding of human awareness. It suggests that our experience of consciousness isn't a single, continuous stream but rather a dynamic interplay of distinct levels and fleeting, yet meaningful, moments.

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"(Psalm-23-4) Walking out of the black and into the light "
(15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Ancestral-Lineage" (22 x 15 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Labyrinth Falls - Overlapping Landscapes Buddha Sees" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).


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"Trinity #2" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Trinity" (22 x 15 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Beach Pareidolia" (22 x 15 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Abstract Consciousness Beach Sunset" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

This book cover was made from my painting "Entanglement" which is below- scroll. I wrote this book. If you are interested click this link to see on Amazon (Click Here).

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"The Tree and the Wheat" (22 x 30 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Magic Mountain" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Wayah - Blue Ridge Mountains" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"The Beach" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"On Any Given Day, Blue Ridge Mountains, NC." (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Morning Sun Grounded in Blue Ridge Mountains Haze" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Smoky Mountains Morning Sky" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

The Smoky Mountains are famously "smoky" due to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by vegetation, and trees that creates a blue-hued mist fog.


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"Blue Ridge Mountains" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Metta Zen" (22 x 15 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"The Tree" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Gran Cuenca" (22.5 x 15 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Box Canyon Reflective Pool" (22 x 15 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Precipice Trail" (22 x 15 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Iris Field with Sun" (15 x 22.5 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Twilight Zone" (15 x 22.5 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Prairie Sunset" (15 x 22.5 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Prairie Sunset Sky" (15 x 22.5 inches, *Mono Print on 300-pound cold press paper). (*Only one will be sold).

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"So alone, So alive, #3" (15 x 22.5 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"So alone, So alive, Stars" (16 x 24 inches, Acrylic collage on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Tree Auras Red Mountains" (15 x 22.5 inches, Acrylic on 300 pound cold press paper).

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"So alone, So alive, WC" (15 x 22.5 inches, watercolor on 300 pound cold press paper).

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"Three Oaks at Sunset" (15 x 22.5 inches, Acrylic on 300 pound cold press paper).

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"So alone, So alive" (15 x 22.5 inches, Acrylic on 300 pound cold press paper).

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"Why 3, Red Sky Morning" (15 x 22.5 inches, Acrylic on 300 pound cold press paper).

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Wild Poppies (Acrylic on 300 pound cold press paper).

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Flower Dancers (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300-pound cold press paper).

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"Sunset Dancers" (15 x 22 inches, Acrylic on 300 pound cold press paper).

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