Rjt Haynes

I read German & Philosophy at Oxford in the days when you could still get away with that sort of thing, before moving to a remote cottage in North Cornwall. I worked for Britain’s largest conservation charity, The National Trust, for a number of years on real pick & shovel projects – in some of Cornwall’s most beautiful coastal & woodland areas, and in all weathers - until deciding to devote myself full-time to painting & writing. Since 2011 (my first year of exhibiting in the US), I’ve had works in numerous shows & galleries, and been awarded prizes at regional and national juried exhibitions. I’ve also won prizes for poetry. I now divide my time between Cornwall, New York City & East Hampton, NY.

My father was a signwriter, and I grew up with the smell of paint & turpentine; I have early memories of climbing ladders & scaffolding to help him with rooftop signs or the hand-painted graphics on heavy goods vehicles – Health & Safety would have been horrified. Santa invariably gave me a shiny new enamel box of watercolours every Christmas; several of them are still around, if somewhat the worse for wear – but none of the early coloured pencils has survived. It was probably inevitable I’d end up as a painter. To a philosop...

University of Oxford: German & Philosophy

Parrish Art Museum, New York: "Artists Choose Artists"
The Art Movement, London, UK
“A Closer Look”, South Huntington, NY