The landscape paintings of the Scottish Highlands and South Wales have the graphic device of boxes or windows within the picture plain. These are the attempt to visualise the notion of looking at landscape with all our received wisdom, whilst acknowledging the distance which modern life places on that experience, despite the close proximity of the elemental force of nature.

After graduating from St. Martins College of Art in the 80s and having worked and exhibited with painters such as Gavin Lockheart and Peter Doig in both California and London, Haydn concentrated on figurative work. In 1990 he was commended in the BP Portrait Award and in 1991 followed this success with winning the BP Travel Award. In 1995 he was the winner of The Carole Foundation at the Mall Galleries in London. The move from figure painting to landscape was gradual and reflects a general desire to be near open spaces and away from the urban environment.