Jeffrey Hayes

Last month I posted a few in-progress images of this painting. Now that it's finished, I can post a final image of it.A lot - maybe even most - of my compositions are happy accidents. Though I usually ...

It's been a long time since I've offered any paintings at auction. I read the same news as everybody else, and the general state of the economy made me a little skittish this year, especially since my ...

Most of the last 2 weeks was spent paying attention to some family issues, and then getting over an ugly cold (I don't get sick all that often, but when I do...). Though it didn't leave much time for work, when I did sit down at my easel, I worked on revising an earlier painting. ...

A few more hours' work and this will be finished. Since I probably won't photograph it again until it's dried and varnished, I thought I'd put this final in-progress shot up.Working on this painting in ...

As I mentioned a few days ago, I've been painting some slightly larger pieces, so I thought I'd give a glimpse of what's in the works.This is actually a piece that I very nearly threw out. I started it about 6 months ago, completed the underpainting, and then decided I didn't like it. ...

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I was drawn to this composition because of the way the 2 handles face off from each other - like actors in a silent little drama. I'm also fascinated by brilliantly lit transparent objects placed against a black background - it makes the highlights and reflections postively sing.

The very close cropping of this piece gives it a little bit of an abstract feel (which is in fact the point). What you're actually seeing is a glass creamer sitting inside a red ceramic spanish bowl, with a green pilsner glass in front. ...

Had I been born 150 years ago, I probably would have turned into a full-fledged Orientalist painter. As it is, nothing gets my creative juices flowing like objects with an exotic flair. The moment I saw this small chinese pipe, I knew I had to paint it.

This is the next painting from my Kaleidoscope series. I decided to challenge myself to push the realism a little further here, and spent some time working on the bubbles and deformities in the glass, as well as the knots on the oriental rug. ...

These fragments are just a little bit of fun; I wanted to combine what I've been doing with the Kaleidoscope paintings and the moorish arches I'd painted into the borders of a few of the fragments a while ...