Charles Haynes creates work grounded in personal observation and lived experience. For him, everything begins with drawing, an intuitive process where thoughts become lines, and lines evolve into form. His practice moves fluidly between abstraction and figuration, exploring the tension and harmony between the two.

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Haynes invites viewers to engage with his sculptures not to decode them, but to experience their presence, complexity, and emotional resonance. He aims to evoke a sense of upliftment through encounter, rather than explanation.

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Constantly attentive to the world around him, Haynes draws inspiration from anthropomorphic forms and the natural environment, particularly the rolling landscapes of his native Yorkshire Wolds. As he puts it, “Everything we see has sculptural potential; it’s simply a matter of transforming an entity into form".