Featured Artist

Ivey Hayes

“When you see me paint something, it’s not about that image…. I stress the importance of color, emotion and composition.”
Ivey Hayes was born and raised in rural southeastern North Carolina and educated at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he received a Master’s degree in Studio Painting. Initially, he painted realistic rural scenes with watercolors as his medium. In 1994 his religious beliefs led him to seek after God and he believes that God gave him a new direction and a new focus for his work. He began to paint expressive colorful scenes using acyrlic paints straight from the tube to create paintings full of color, life and emotion. Ivey has been a professional artist for over thirty years and still resides in his hometown of Rocky Point.