Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Hoyes’ professional artist career began at the early age of nine when he sold wood-carvings and watercolours to foreign tourists. At 15, he moved to New York to continue his artistic endeavors, apprenticing as a painter and sculptor. He studied at Vermont Academy under a scholarship and graduated with a BA Fine Arts degree at the College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California. Since then, his career has ranged from lecturing, painting murals, exhibiting art and promoting Caribbean culture to America, in particular founding the ‘Caribbean Cultural Institute and Caribbean Arts, Inc.’ in the late 70s as a space for holding cultural Afro-centric events. Hoyes’s masterful use of harmonious color and rhythmic compositions are inspired by his Jamaican heritage and Afro-Christian culture, exploring authentic revelations of altered states of reality.
