A vital mission…breaking down the walls…to reactivate a museum landscape with a refreshing and democratizing new concept.

The real subject of her artistry is nurturing over time, or time itself.

A combination of idealism and escapism is what elevated Hayes’s terrariums beyond those of the past, into the world of both fine art and contemporary design.

Hayes joins natural and sculptural forms in otherworldly creations.

Protector of the bond between art and the earth with the constancy of an activist.

Hayes often creates work that connects people with nature.

In addition to being ecologically correct, she also wants to offer people something on a human scale.

​She lives an urban life in New York City, but Paula Hayes’ work revolves around the natural world.

It was as if 18 miniature worlds had suddenly come to life.

Paula understands the grittiness that New York City brings, and juxtaposes that to the dream of nature.

...each of which holds a wondrous landscape of metallic rocks, luridly colored seas and mysteriously antennaed creatures.

Beyond the beautiful, Hayes’ political commitment reigns supreme and has been a catalyst for a new body of work.

Her works can function as consciousness-raising devices

Paula creates these Lilliputian little tropical worlds using the energies of innovation…

The caretaking required stresses Hayes’ belief in the need for a more interrelated relationship between people and the environment

Absolutely breathtaking

​artworks…that mix living plants with Hayes’ unusual, and almost sci-fi, sensibility.

…these pieces are focused, dynamic and always impressive in their formal rigor…

…she creates delicate terrariums that make the viewer feel as though they are the universe…

Garden designer Paula Hayes stirred interest in Manhattan fine-art circles with her duodenum-like glass vessels

…a fresh look at volumes and surfaces.

Paula Hayes’s singular landscapes blur the boundary between art and nature—and redefine the relationship between art and beholder

…it does something no ordinary pot achieves: It expands to accomodate root growth…