Title
The Walk to the Paradise Garden: Paintings by Dan HaysPosted In
Painting, ExhibitionDuration
04 March 2017 to 11 June 2017Venue
Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden CityOpening Hours
Wednesday to Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 / Sunday 10:00 - 16:00Location
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Title | The Walk to the Paradise Garden: Paintings by Dan Hays | Posted In | Painting, Exhibition | Duration | 04 March 2017 to 11 June 2017 |
Venue | Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City | Opening Hours | Wednesday to Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 / Sunday 10:00 - 16:00 | Location |
2 The Arcade, Letchworth Garden City SG6 3EW |
![Dan Hays, Curlew and Bittern, 2016. Oil on canvas, 90 x 160 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays. Dan Hays, Curlew and Bittern, 2016. Oil on canvas, 90 x 160 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f1_the_walk_to_the_paradise_garden_paintings_by_dan_hays_broadway_gallery_letchworth_garden_city_curlew_and_bittern_2016_yatzer.jpg)
Dan Hays, Curlew and Bittern, 2016. Oil on canvas, 90 x 160 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays.
![Dan Hays, Detail of Perpetual Egyptobethan Wilbury, 2016. Oil on canvas, 205 x 205 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays. Dan Hays, Detail of Perpetual Egyptobethan Wilbury, 2016. Oil on canvas, 205 x 205 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f2_the_walk_to_the_paradise_garden_paintings_by_dan_hays_broadway_gallery_letchworth_garden_city_detail_of_perpetual_egyptobethan_wilbury_2016_yatzer.jpg)
Dan Hays, Detail of Perpetual Egyptobethan Wilbury, 2016. Oil on canvas, 205 x 205 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays.
For his Lechworth-inspired works, Hays took photos of streets, buildings and landscapes in and around the city and treated them with his usual method of pixelated oil painting. This marks a departure from the artist’s usual practice of using found images on the internet, and rather creates the source images himself. While exploring Lechworth, Hays’ camera focused on architectural details and certain aspects of the natural environment such as tree foliage and the countryside, as well as the ideological framework of this well-planned suburbia, where people were imagined to live happy, wealthy lives surrounded by nature. A mountainous image from the series titled Wanderlust has little to do with Hampshire of course, but instead evokes a distant and dissimilar landscape that is probably unreachable or even completely fictional — in a way just as Ebenezer Howard’s vision might have been over a hundred years ago.
![Dan Hays, Picture Box, 2013. Oil on canvas, 180 x 240 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays. Dan Hays, Picture Box, 2013. Oil on canvas, 180 x 240 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f3_the_walk_to_the_paradise_garden_paintings_by_dan_hays_broadway_gallery_letchworth_garden_city_picture_box_2013_yatzer.jpg)
Dan Hays, Picture Box, 2013. Oil on canvas, 180 x 240 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays.
![Dan Hays, First Light, 2012. Oil on canvas, 180 x 240 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays. Dan Hays, First Light, 2012. Oil on canvas, 180 x 240 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f4_the_walk_to_the_paradise_garden_paintings_by_dan_hays_broadway_gallery_letchworth_garden_city_first_light_2012_yatzer.jpg)
Dan Hays, First Light, 2012. Oil on canvas, 180 x 240 cm. Courtesy Dan Hays © Dan Hays.