Bedroom Scene — 16" x 20" · oil on linen panel

Painter & poet · Oils · Watercolours · Pastels & Drawings

Figurative painting from a remote cottage in North Cornwall.

Interiors and derelict farm buildings, cattle and sheep, macarons and much-loved toys — each rendered with a stubborn attention to what is actually there, and to what lies underneath it.

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Bedroom Scene, 16" x 20" · oil on linen panel

The work

Oils

Interiors, derelict Cornish farm buildings, skies and figures in oil on linen and panel.

21 works

Trunk show bear XV — 5" x 7" · watercolour

Watercolours

Small, intimate watercolours: much-loved toys, livestock and the odd bit of bling.

7 works

Pastels & Drawings

Large pastel, charcoal and coloured-pencil works: cattle, sheep, macarons, masks and more.

27 works

Recent work

19 new pieces added this year.

Speaking Volumes · 12" x 16" · pastel & charcoal

Descending Order · 28" x 24" · oil on linen

Plate Tectonics · 28" x 20" · pastel & charcoal

The Red Door · 16" x 12" · oil on linen panel

Gatekeeper · 28" x 20" · pastel & charcoal

Sparks · 20" x 28" · pastel & charcoal

Old Crocs · 30" x 22" · pastel

Hearth ·

“A ‘simple’ lamb or apple is abuzz with symbolism.”

RJT Haynes read German & Philosophy at Oxford in the days when you could still get away with that sort of thing, before moving to a remote cottage in North Cornwall – a ruggedly beautiful part of South-west England whose unique light & landscape have informed many of his paintings.

Also a poet.

Toby has written several hundred poems, has twice taken first prize in East End Arts Council poetry competitions, and read new work at the Parrish Art Museum in 2017. The animals that fill his paintings turn up in the poems too: a war horse turned out to grass, a rabbit in a garden.

Poetry →

Finally turned out to meagre grass
As not worth the kindness of a bullet,
from Warhorse — Best in Show, East End Arts Council, 2012