Bernard Hoyes
“I have been a creator of art, symbols of ancestral echoes since a child in Jamaica… The images I convey symbolize a culmination of these ancestral echoes brought to classical form. They are contemporary, eternal in spirit and stand as praise to our existence –past, present and future.”
At the age of nine, Bernard Hoyes’ professional art career began in his home town of Kingston, Jamaica. Bernard’s mother sold his wood carvings and watercolors to visitors at the Jamaica Tourist Board to help maintain the household and support his creative efforts.
Hoyes began his academic art education at the Institute of Jamaica. At age 15, he moved to New York to live with his father, attend school and continue his art endeavors. He studied at the Art Students League and the Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont. While studying in Vermont, his work was featured in Vermont Life, Stage IV and Vermont 70 Magazines. He was instrumental in the development of a formal art department at the Academy.