Hayward was a marine, portrait and figure painter and teacher. He was born in Southport and trained at Warrington School of Art, the Slade, and with Stanhope Forbes at the Newlyn School of Art. He exhibited 1920-40 at the Royal Academy & Royal Institute of Painters in Oil. Hayward served as a captain in the Royal Field Artillery in the First World War. He settled in St Ives in Cornwall in c.1923, and founded a painting school and gallery at Shore Studio, and became a member of St Ives Art Club. He exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition 1920–47, the ROI, RSA, RWA and Paris Salon. Works were acquired by public galleries in Warrington and Auckland, New Zealand, and the National Portrait Gallery obtained his 1933 self-portrait from the Fine Art Society in 1985.
