Patrick Hayman was born in London in 1915 and died in the same city in 1988. He lived in New Zealand from 1936 to 1947, and he did not from 1938 in New Zealand. he returned to England in 1947 where he settled in Cornwall. Coming from a Jewish family and was inspired by the shapes and colors of Chagall. Many of his works are also inspired by Jewish or Byzantine motifs. Hayman died in London in 1988, and a major retrospective took place at the Camden Arts Center in 1990, another in 2005 at the Belgrave Galleries. These works have entered many private and public collections: Croydon Museum, Wilson, Chetenham, At the Southampton City Art Gallery, Swindon, Tate Collection.