Harold Frederick Weaver Hawkins (1893–1977) was an English painter and printmaker working with the techniques of etching, monotypes, linocuts and woodcuts.
Weaver Hawkins enlisted in the Queen's Westminster Rifles and was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme at Gommecourt, France in 1916.
After World War I, Weaver Hawkins studied at the Westminster Technical Institute and School of Art from 1919 to 1922, and took classes in etching from Sir Frank Short.
They spent time in St Tropez in France, Spain, Italy, Malta, lived "native style on a remote Tahitian island"[9] and visited New Zealand before finally settling in 1935.
He chose the northern Sydney coastal suburb of Mona Vale, Australia[2] and he named his home Maui Ma after his experience of living in Tahiti.
[10] The house was located at the Pittwater end of Waterview Street, named The Mad Half Mile by Sydney Ure Smith where artists, poets and writers lived.
[12][13] As a result, Weaver Hawkins became involved in a wider arts circle in Sydney, including meeting actor Peter Finch in a production of Moliere's Imaginary Invalid for which he had designed "aptly picturesque costumes".
"[21] Weaver Hawkin's selected entry Betrayal for the 1952 Blake Prize was reviewed in the Catholic Weekly and he was critically grouped with a number of other artists as showing "a capacity to absorb an intricate religious concept and transform it into their individual art form".