Justin Hawkes born in 1955 is a painter and conservator. His own works are richly coloured abstracts with landscape allusions. He studied at Cambridge Anglia Polytechnic, 1974-76 and in Byam Shaw Art School in 1976 –80, where his teachers included Frank Bowling and Simon Willis. In his second year he gained the Graham Hamilton Drawing Award.

After leaving art school he undertook an apprenticeship as a painting conservator at the school of Helmut Ruhemann and became a visiting teacher to art schools.

He is a member of the Association of British Restorers.

He has shown world wide in solo and group exhibitions, in Japan, Canada and the UK.

Justin Hawkes claims British colour-field painters like Robyn Denny, Richard Smith and Bridget Riley influenced him.