Rowley Haynes

Rowley Haynes’ intimate, multi-layered drawings capture personal snapshots: childhood memories, holidays spent camping, time with friends and everyday objects. The scenes are personal yet relatable and are given emotional resonance by Rowley’s accomplished rendering of soft and dappled light. His typical medium - pencil on paper - is a vehicle for capturing moments of nostalgia and tranquility, built up using meticulous layers of colour, which both comfort and challenge the viewer.

“The nominal subjects within Haynes’ attractive and joyful drawings, here two chairs and the arm and side of a person, represent, most meaningfully, surfaces for the artist’s rendering of the soft and warm interplay between colour and light.”
Excerpt from Field of Difference, an essay by Nick Hackworth