Bernard Hoyes - First Art Source

Bernard Hoyes
Bernard Hoyes was born in 1951 in Kingston, Jamaica. His artistic ability appeared at an early age, when his mother sold his wood carvings and watercolors to tourists to help support the family when he was 9. When he was 15, the family moved to New York. Hoyes furthered his art education by taking evening classes at the Art Students League and apprenticing under several artists. He received a Ford Foundation scholarship to attend the summer arts program at Vermont Academy before getting a Board of Trustees Grant from the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and design. Hoyes worked for several years as a designer for the California Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles, before becoming a full time painter in 1978. Through watercolors and drawings, Hoyes creates colorful scenes from Caribbean life, often with spiritual themes. Hoyes also did several workds as part of the Los Angeles Citywide Murals Programs. He moved back to Jamaica in 1982, but returned to Los Angeles during the 1992 riots. He has formed the Caribbean Cultural Institute to expose Caribbean culture to America and founded Caribbean Arts, Inc., to publish his work.	Photo by Caribbean Arts