Gene Haynes Artist Biography

Artist Biography: Self-taught from an early age, my work records movement, color and change observed in life. Colors themselves motivate me into using ever-changing methods that push boundaries for color and catch the eye. The work is balanced in content, while maintaining emotional activity that portray change, like a fire on the savannah, or show ideas and cultures layered over the past. The standard used to gauge my work is: does it look different & interesting? Is it new? Does it push beyond what came before? Does the image become greater than the sum of it’s parts? My aspiration has been to produce professional grade work that is unique and inimitable.

Medium: Acrylic paint, wood, plastic, paper, etc applied to primed, sanded & painted ½” birch plywood.

Process: Clear paint is applied in various ways to plywood while laid flat, then color and objects are added while wet… generally the work is done at night so drying time is extended… once dry, objects are introduced or removed from the surface, many times using a veneer cut from older pieces to overlay newer work. Once a piece is finished, a thin poplar trim is nailed to the 4 edges, making a durable frame that is filled, sanded and lightly varnished to stabilize the grain.

Production: The plywood and poplar basics are purchased at Hardwood Lumber in Houston. All work from start to finish is done by Gene Haynes in a covered, open-air studio with a concrete floor that measures 18’ x 36’. The studio was built by me in 1992 and is located on my property in Rosenberg. Artwork is stored in a 10’ x 12’ room in my home with shelves built specifically to hold the work & elevate it from the off-chance of interior flooding.


Gene Haynes