Rooted in his experience studying the Sussex landscape, Hayward combines ideas from abstract expressionism, 90s dance music, rave culture, graffiti, and his mother’s South Asian and West African textiles. His vibrant, hybrid approach blends rhythm and texture, using oil stick techniques that echo embroidery.

This series of new works was inspired by postwar British art by artists such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Edward Burra, Ceri Richards, Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland in the Gallery’s collection, and which can be seen in the major exhibition British Landscapes: A Sense of Place, running concurrently with Path Through Trees.

Developed following a joint residency with Pallant House Gallery and West Dean College, this show offers a bold, contemporary response to British landscape painting.

Alongside the exhibition, Hayward has worked with the Gallery’s Community Programme to create Gathered in the Landscape, a large-scale collaborative artwork exploring landscape as a shared experience, which can be seen in Room 17.