EJ Stapleton was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1953, the second of five children. There is a story of a babysitter walking in to find him, at two years old, standing in his crib, drawing all over his bedroom wall. Not much has changed since then. He still writes or draws on anything that doesn’t move. 

EJ was educated through the Boston Public School system and spent most of his time there searching for whatever information he could gather about Art and the artists who generate it.  In 1971, he left for a two-week trip to Italy. He returned in 1973. This began what continues today to be a lifetime of searching.  A lifetime of learning, handshake by handshake, the true heart of the human race.

In the mid 1970’s EJ was lucky enough to find himself in the company of Joseph Solman, one of the founders of the American Expressionist movement, in New York City.  Mr. Solman, at ninety-five, is still one of the most active and powerful influences in the art world and a steadfast source of influence and inspiration to all facets of EJ’s work. 

EJ Stapleton has, and continues to travel extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. His sights are now set on Africa and South America.

EJ once noted a tee shirt on a passing traveler, which had on it a view of the Earth. Above it was written,  “I am not a tourist…I live here.”

EJ Stapleton couldn’t agree more. 

“The Calico Buffalo” is the first of five books, to date, by EJ Stapleton. It is his hope that these efforts will shine some small light on the things he believes we all know, in our hearts, to be the truth.

NOTE: EJ Stapleton and India Baldwin are one and the same.