Born in Birmingham, England, he moved to New York in 1993 and now lives in Roxbury in the Catskill Mountains 130 miles north of New York City. His work can be found in a number of prestigious galleries throughout the USA. He also shows his work at premier Fine Art festivals around the world. His work includes portraiture, landscape and his exquisite ‘Light Preserved’ still-life series. Orton uses glass bottles to represent buildings, the paintings invite the eye to meander through various glass objects, the shadows of valley of glass.