Hoare was born in Salisbury in October 1923, and at an early age moved to Ampleforth when his father was appointed School Clerk.
[1] Contemporaries included Elizabeth Frink, Anthony Rossiter and Brian Yates; Hoare studied under Robert Medley and Ceri Richards.
Commissions have included murals at the Cordwainers College (1958), the Regent Hotel Plymouth (1966), paintings for Shell-Mex Headquarters (1962), murals for the Department of Environmental Sciences, County College, Lancaster (1970); the University of Lancaster (1971); Berman and Kahlmbach, New York (1971); the University of Surrey.
Greatly influenced by his early exposure to American artists, Hoare moved from more traditional techniques of drawing and painting to creating paintings in the sea[8] In 1952 Hoare married Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, a fellow artist he met when they both studied at Chelsea School of Art.
One daughter is also an artist,[1] with whom he had a joint exhibition [9] In 2010 Hoare was awarded the Bletchley Park and Outstation War Veterans medals for his wartime work in the navy.