Patrick Hayman Archives - Vanessa Clewes Salmon

Patrick Hayman (1915-1988)

Although born in London, it was in New Zealand that Patrick Hayman began to paint, ‘it really simply bursts out of me with great relief!’ He moved in literary and avant-garde circles and was greatly influenced by the work of Chagall and Nolde; on his return to England he married and moved to Cornwall as he was drawn to the artist’s colony of St Ives and especially the work of Christopher Wood and Alfred Wallis. He taught at the Falmouth School of Art and later the Croydon School of Art. Hayman founded and edited The Painter & Sculptor magazine and as Philip Vann the author and art critic writes, ‘Hayman was the least academic and pretentious of men…his paintings and poems are striking for their intelligence, innocence and visionary candour.’ His work is dotted all over the world in private collections as well as The Tate Gallery, London, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, The National Gallery of South Australia and The National Gallery of Modern Arts, Edinburgh.

Patrick Hayman, Cornish Farm House

18 June, 2020