About John Hayden

Although I had drawn and painted in my spare time from an early age, for many years I did not actually show my work publicly.  But around the early nineties I decided to try exhibiting, and since then I  have taken part in numerous exhibitions and most years have had at least one solo show, where landscapes of the local Hampshire and Dorset coasts and the New Forest have proved very popular. But I have never lost my love of steam railway paintings, and I always  include a few in my landscape exhibitions. I am constantly surprised at the number of people who share my enthusiasm!

This has led to numerous invitations to show my work at steam rallies and model railway exhibitions etc. The response  has been good and I have been kept very busy with commissions for railway as well as aviation, marine, and motoring paintings.

These days, although I still love the watercolour medium for on-site landscapes, for commission work  I use  mostly oils and acrylics.  

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John Hayden