About

His work draws on the visual language of vintage children's books and coloring books: simplified forms, luminous color, the kind of warmth that arrives without explanation. Collectors describe a peace they cannot name. A familiarity that lives below conscious recognition. Something returned to them that they hadn't realized was gone.

Working in layers of acrylic, watercolor, pigment stick and wax pastel on canvas and found fabrics, Hyatt builds each painting toward a single experience: the restoration of childlike wonder. Not as nostalgia, but as a living perceptual state. The way the world felt before we learned to see it analytically. The fox, wild by nature and still in sleep, holds that threshold open.