Belgrave St Ives - Modern & Contemporary Art
Mel Gooding - Patrick Hayman - Visionary Artist

Mel Gooding

Patrick Hayman - Visionary Artist 2005

Book; 31 x 25 cms

Title: Patrick Hayman - Visionary Artist
A comprehensive text with 89 colour illustrations in hardback, 96 pages.

Belgrave Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of a major new study on PATRICK HAYMAN - Visionary Artist by Mel Gooding. This is the first full-length study of one of the most original and individual British artists of the second half of the last century. Poetic, witty and poignant, his work drew upon a vast range of personal and cultural sources. Subjects from history, myth, religion and literature, and from the experience of everyday life, were drawn into and and transformed by the idiosyncratic world of his imagination. He touched nothing that did not undergo a 'sea-change into something rich and strange'. Hayman's distinctive imagery was utterly his own and yet it seemed to touch upon something deep in the spirit of those that encountered it. He was much admired as an artist by many of his most distinguished creative and critical contemporaries, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Alan Bowness and J.P. Hodin among them.

Born in London in 1915, Hayman spent his formative years in New Zealand, where he was closely involved with several of the most important young artists associated with the brilliant group associated with Colin McCahon. He returned to England in 1947, and before long became part of the burgeoning post-war art scene in Cornwall. At first as a visitor and thereafter as an annual visitor he exhibited regularly in St. Ives, as well as well as at many leading London galleries. From 1958 to 1963 he edited The Painter and Sculptor, a quarterly magazine of the arts that fervently promoted humanistic figurative art. In later years Hayman led a more reclusive life, his free and melancholy spirit finding expression in an outpouring of visionary drawings, paintings and constructions, as well as a number of beautiful painted poems. He died in 1988.

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