Artist in oil, watercolour, gouache and pastel, and teacher, born in Thornton Heath, Surrey. He attended Croydon School of Art, 1924–5, then Royal College of Art, 1926–30, teachers including William Rothenstein, Randolph Schwabe and Henry Rushbury. He held a number of teaching posts including being principal successively of Bournville, Portsmouth and Birmingham Colleges of Art. Completed murals in Manchester, Bournemouth and Birmingham and did book illustrating for leading publishers including John Murray and Oxford University Press. He was made a freeman of Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, for services to the arts, in 1952. Hawes was a member of RWS, NEAC, SGA and RBSA, which gave him a memorial exhibition in 1997. Abbott and Holder held a show of early pictures in 1999.