Al Hayball

al has always drawn, from his school days when he would doodle in the margins of his exercise-books, to the evenings in the smokey old pubs his dad would frequent on ‘darts’ night, where he would sit in the corner scribbling ‘caricatures’ of all the pub dwellers. however it wasn’t until later he had success as a full-time artist. leaving school to become a bank clerk, alan hayball became a printer at abbey life before joining a graphic-design studio as production manager. he found this experience invaluable in realising how the art world worked.

he is self taught and had always avoided art college being worried he might fall into a way of working, that was like everyone else, having always striven to develop a unique style. however in an effort to learn more, latterly, he did attend bournemouth art institute where he did an hnc in illustration and graphics and a btec in computer studies.