Greg Haynes is an oil painter based outside of Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Hartford Art School in 2003 with a BFA in photography. His highly rendered works are modern day still life paintings featuring mundane household vessels such as pitchers, bottles and jars. The artist often includes everyday objects within these vessels–buttons, coins, candy–with all their charm and idiosyncrasies.Haynes presents his subject matter at a larger-than-life scale, depicted at close range with extraordinary detail, precision and verisimilitude. His compositions are tightly cropped, zooming in on textures, surfaces, and the play of light and shadow that, while utterly and convincingly portrayed, surpass mere mechanical representation of form. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in private collections around the world.“For the past few years I’ve been working with a number of themes that involve the reflections and visual distortion that various objects create. Glass and metal are two of the predominant materials of choice. I like the idea that you can achieve natural effects that play tricks on the eye. A successful painting to me is one that really engages the viewer and makes them stop to figure out everything that is happening within the plane of the canvas. That is one of the great things about art, you can spend years on one idea and still have many different directions to take it in. Whether it is graphite or oil paint, realism is a style that has interested me throughout my life. It is certainly not a new form of expression but no doubt one that I have just begun to explore.” – Greg Haynes