© 2024 David Hayward

2021

2021 saw the completion of a set of 12 paintings worked on during Covid lockdown. Collectively titled “View from a Train”, each painting in the series is a reflection on a specific time and place and is based on scribbles in notebooks and memories of particular rail journeys. Seeing a landscape unfolding from the detachment of a moving train seems to emphasise its horizontality while the fleeting shifts in focus between foreground and distance heighten a sense of personal transience.
The ten small ‘Notebook” paintings were made during January – they mimic the jotting down of ideas and observations that get collected and stored in notebooks.  Also, occasionally working on an ongoing series entitled The Editor’s Choice, a group of small paintings based on the Guardian’s double page format in which the juxtapositions of unrelated articles provides a useful platform for exploring analogous, mismatched abstract language.

 

David Hayward Selected Works - Sangatte (View from a Train series)

Title: Sangatte (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Shenzen (View from a Train series)

Title: Shenzen (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Night Train to Varanasi (View from a Train series)

Title: Night Train to Varanasi (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Fuji (View from a Train series)

Title: Fuji (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Red-Med Maroc (View from a Train series)

Title: Red-Med Maroc (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Allhallows (View from a Train series)

Title: Allhallows (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Crow Field (View from a Train series)

Title: Crow Field (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Kilpeck (View from a Train series)

Title: Kilpeck (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Return to Blue (View from a Train series)

Title: Return to Blue (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Bunyola (View from a Train series)

Title: Bunyola (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Casablanca (View from a Train series)

Title: Casablanca (View from a Train series)

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 85cm x 85cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Red Wall 2021

Title: Red Wall 2021

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 61cm x 122cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Interior with Slight Ennui 2022

Title: Interior with Slight Ennui 2022

Medium: oil, Encaustic & torn net curtain

Size: 80cm x 122cm

David Hayward Selected Works - The Editor's Choice #2 - 2021

Title: The Editor's Choice #2 - 2021

Medium: Encaustic on panel

Size: 20cm x 30cm

David Hayward Selected Works - The Editor's Choice #4 - 2021

Title: The Editor's Choice #4 - 2021

Medium: Encaustic on panel

Size: 20cm x 30cm

David Hayward Selected Works - Lexington Avenue 2021

Title: Lexington Avenue 2021

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 61cm x 122cm

David Hayward Selected Works -

Title: "Notebook" paintings

Medium: Encaustic on panel

Size: each 40cm x 28cm

David Hayward Selected Works -

Title: "Notebook" paintings

Medium: Encaustic on panel

Size: each 40cm x 28cm