Timeline

Nova Scotia artist, Ron Hayes’ latest landscape paintings are large, textured canvases of the Annapolis valley where he now lives. With long beaches forever being covered and revealed in an endless tidal cycle he worked to bring this powerful metaphor in his painting. What seemed most natural was to literally build the surface of the canvas with the materials collected from the ground. The sand, stones, shells and sticks are embedded in the art and serve as both objects to be discovered and textures on which paint covers and reveals various forms.

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Ron Hayes has also painted watercolours in India, Nepal, Europe and various places in North America.

Dive

In the 1990’s Ron Hayes returned to school to study expressive arts. He worked with groups of other artists of various disciplines in Toronto, New York and Switzerland for seven years and completed a Masters degree. Body movement, music, writing and theatre opened his work to new ways of making, seeing and responding to the images. A gesture drawing in oil pastel was painted over in watercolour. The drawing repels the paint and slowly emerges. Each artwork is play between chaos and balance.

 

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The Enlightenment

Ron continues to find a source of inspiration in the maritime landscape. His work is on display at ArtCan Gallery and Cafe in Canning, Nova Scotia and Pilar Shepard Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

 

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