Trinity Hall Observed:

Doors and Windows of an Ancient College

An exhibition of sepia pen and wash drawings by Colin Hayes (Trinity Hall 1962)

14 September - 17 November

The exhibition is open on Saturdays from 10am-12.30pm and on Sundays from 2-5pm. 

Other times by arrangement with the College (contact details below)

Admission is free.

Works will be for sale and a selection of postcards will be on sale in the porters' lodge.

 

For more information contact Mary Richmond on events@trinhall.cam.ac.uk or call 01223 332555

Private View on Friday 13 September, 6.30 - 8.30pm - ALL ALUMNI WELCOME

About the artist and the exhibition:

After graduating from Trinity Hall with a degree in History, Colin embarked on a career in educational publishing, first with the Longman Group and latterly as a Director of Cambridge University Press.  His work took him all over the world and left little time or energy for art, but he knew that he wanted to draw and paint once he was a free man; so ten years before he was due to retire he began to study at private classes in Cambridge with James Horton RBA.  It was James who introduced him to life-drawing with pen and ink, a medium that appealed immediately to Colin and which he instinctively developed for drawing street scenes, old buildings and doorways in French and Italian villages, using sepia ink for both line and wash.

Colin was elected to the Cambridge Drawing Society in 2006 and is a member of the ‘Posers’ life-drawing group.  He has held several successful solo exhibitions at his home in South Cambs, also one in the South of France, and has exhibited numerous times in Cambridge.  It was at one of these shows, several years ago, that the Bursar of Trinity Hall suggested he draw the doors and windows of the college.  Colin had always intended to draw G staircase one day, where he had spent his freshman year, and so began a lengthy project that turned into a labour of love.  The practical constraints were considerable. There is no shade or cover to be had when working in college courts; so the day must not threaten rain, or be too dark, or too bright, or with college events taking place, and the long vacation is the only quiet time.  The work was demanding.  These are not architectural drawings in the mechanical sense; but the proportions and particular features of every subject still have to be precisely observed in order to capture their essence.  The outcome, it is hoped, is an intimate and affectionate portrait of the college, seen through those passageways where for centuries Master and Fellows, scholars and students, and the many commoners who work in college, ‘have had their exits and their entrances’.

Visit Colin's website at http://www.colinhayes.info/