John Heywood

John Heywood is a printmaker who has exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Scottish Society of Artists and the Visual Arts Society of Scotland. Although John has had the opportunity to explore other mediums throughout his life, he has always gone back to print as his favoured means of expressing ideas about landscape and the urban environment. Since the mid-1980s John Heywood has been a member of Edinburgh Printmakers, and has worked almost exclusively in etching. Although a printmaker, John’s work weighs heavily on drawing. He likes to capture an atmosphere through sketch- a time of day or particular sense of place, and then transfer it onto the metal plate.