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artist who worked in a variety of media including painting, drawing and three-dimensional constructions as well as poetry. Although he only lived in
Cornwall
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for a few years, he was closely associated with the
St Ives School
The St Ives School refers to a group of artists living and working in the Cornish town of St Ives. Hayman acknowledged he was inspired to paint by
Robert Nettleton Field Robert Nettleton Field (3 March 1899–18 February 1987) was a New Zealand artist, sculptor, potter and art teacher. He was born in Bromley, Kent, England on 3 March 1899. Field was described as “a quiet man who has never sought publicity and ...
(1899–1987) teacher at the
Dunedin School of Art
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Through the 19 ...
in
Dunedin
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, New Zealand, where Hayman went to live as a young man. He mingled there in the 1930s with a group of young artists who developed New Zealand's first indigenous Modernism. Notable in that group was
Colin McCahon
Colin John McCahon (; 1August 191927May 1987) was a prominent New Zealand artist whose work over 45 years consisted of various styles, including landscape, figuration, abstraction, and the overlay of painted text. Along with Toss Woollaston and ...
(1919–1987) who stayed in contact with Hayman and like him used texts as integral to his imagery.
A daughter, Christina Conrad, was born in New Zealand in 1942. Also an artist as well as a filmmaker and poet, her paintings and clay icons were created without her having knowledge of her real father, but nevertheless bear a striking resemblance, aesthetically and in terms of social concerns, with a lot of her father's work. She is well known in New Zealand, Australia and the United States where she has exhibited widely in and around New York, including the Outsider Art Fair and the Kleinart Gallery in Woodstock.
St.Ives, Cornwall
Hayman returned to England in 1947 and became part of the burgeoning post-war art scene in Cornwall. From 1958 to 1963 he edited The Painter and Sculptor, a quarterly magazine of the arts that fervently promoted humanistic figurative art. During the 1960s he also taught at the Falmouth School of Art and then at the Croydon School of Art.
References
* Parke-Taylor, M, Phillips, CA, Hayman, P (1985) ''Patrick Hayman: the Visionary and the New Frontier'' Regina, Can:
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery
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University of Regina
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