I have lived near Cambridge for over thirty years, and most of my art is directed towards a celebration of the East Anglian landscape, working in soft pastel and occasionally in oils. But I paint whenever I travel, and I also draw, mainly with pen and sepia ink. You can see examples of my paintings and drawings on this site from Europe and Australia as well as from the UK, together with some life drawings and portraits.

I have held five solo exhibitions to date, four of them locally and one in the south of France, all of which were extremely successful. I have also completed numerous commissions. The works reproduced on this site are not for sale and are mostly in the possession of other people; but if there is any commission of your own you would like to discuss, a landscape, a drawing, or a portrait, I should be very interested to hear from you.


"On Coploe Hill"

(Please note: many people interested in 20th century British painters will know of the late Colin Hayes RA, a most distinguished artist and teacher who died in 2003. In deference to him, and to avoid confusion when exhibiting, I now sign my own work either Colin Finlay Hayes or C.J.F.Hayes.)