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In these four new artworks, this artist continues his exploration of intimacy and delicate light and shadow by depicting solitary figures in idle repose. They sleep, read, bathe, lounge, and rest, granting viewers access to their private moments. Dapples of light dance across one figure from an out-of-frame window, shadowplay emerges from the folds of another’s pajamas, ripples of blue lap alongside a bather reading in her bathtub, and a never-ending staircase weaves its way up towards a figure asleep, building a dreamscape that blurs reality and fiction. As observers, Haynes allows us to share these highly intimate snapshots of quiet serenity.
Framed: 43.8 x 31.2 in.
Signed

① Artwork:

Untitled 1

In these four new artworks, this artist continues his exploration of intimacy and delicate light and shadow by depicting solitary figures in idle repose. They sleep, read, bathe, lounge, and rest, granting viewers access to their private moments. Dapples of light dance across one figure from an out-of-frame window, shadowplay emerges from the folds of another’s pajamas, ripples of blue lap alongside a bather reading in her bathtub, and a never-ending staircase weaves its way up towards a figure asleep, building a dreamscape that blurs reality and fiction. As observers, Haynes allows us to share these highly intimate snapshots of quiet serenity.

Rowley Haynes’ art renders frozen, intimate moments of his friends and family. Delicately rendered with colored pencil, Haynes poetically captures transient or emotionally charged moments of human existence. His subjects tend to be isolated in serene scenes of loneliness, conjuring intimate vignettes of domesticity that call to mind artists such as Pierre Bonnard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Specs:

27.5 inches
39.25 inches
with frame
31.25 inches
43.75 inches

③ Artist:

Rowley Haynes

Rowley Haynes’ art renders frozen, intimate moments of his friends and family. Delicately rendered with colored pencil, Haynes poetically captures transient or emotionally charged moments of human existence amid those within his most cherished circle. The introspective beauty present in these everyday snapshots is one of calm serenity. His subjects tend to be isolated in scenes of loneliness, conjuring intimate vignettes of domesticity that call to mind artists such as Pierre Bonnard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Rowley Haynes was born in 1996 in London, UK, where he lives. He received his BA from the Glasgow School of Art and graduated from the Royal Drawing School in London.

Haynes has exhibited with Scroll in New York, NY; LKIF Gallery in Seoul, South Korea; Hewhood Gallery in London, UK; Lychee One in London, UK; Palmer Gallery in London, UK; Timothy Taylor Gallery in London, UK; Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany; and elsewhere.

He has won residencies with Pignano in Tuscany, Italy; Dumfries House in East Ayrshire, Scotland; Watershed in Galway, Ireland; and Zaratan in Lisbon, Portugal.

Rowley Haynes:
Untitled 1, 2024
Pencil and pastel on paper
39.3 × 27.5 inches /