Black and White Graphic Artist and Illustrator

A Brief Outline of the Artist's Life

Haydn is currently working in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, where he has been living since May 2004. Like many artists he was lured to the area by its extraordinary light and picturesque coastline and had intentions of painting the local landscape in oils. However, his inspiration ultimately came from elsewhere - he stumbled across an image by the stained glass artist Harry Clarke - and he found himself returning to his passion for illustration. He discarded the paints (and colour) in favour of the more detailed black and white pen drawings you see here and has never looked back since.

Born near Nottingham in 1974, he grew up in Grantham attending the Kings School there between 1985 and 1992. During his A-levels he managed to secure a place on a Graphics ND at the Lincolnshire College of Art and Design and in 1995 he moved to Lincoln to complete a degree course in Graphic Design and Illustration at De Montfort University. Two web design courses at the North Lincs College followed and then several years of charity work, but now he devotes all his time to illustration. He is very much an admirer of the so-called 'Golden Age' and it is no coincidence that most of the artists and illustrators that have influenced him in one way or another were working during this period (Gustav Klimt, Pavel Filonov, Aubrey Beardsley, Kay Nielsen and Edmund Dulac for example).

Outside of work, if he's not cycling over the Preseli hills then you'll probably find him sat round the bridge table where he plays competetively at club level.

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