The Exuberant J. C. Heywood

J. C. Heywood’s 50 years of experience with color and texture are evident in the artworks of In Living Colour, open this weekend at Cambridge Galleries.  (Remembering Madurai, 2011, acrylic and giclée on canvas, 48×60” )

-New Hi-Power, 2010, acrylic and giclée on canvas, 48″ x 60

Creating images is the most wonderful of games . . . It is like swinging on a rope out into a river: a focus that engages me mentally, sensually, physically, spiritually. . . a meditation, a joy.  – J.C. Heywood’s artist statement.

-Untitled, 2011, Acrylic and giclée on canvas, 48″ x 60″

Heywood concentrates primarily on printmaking using screenprint, etching, lithography, vectographs and digital prints. The gallery says this exhibition “showcases his exuberant and varied approaches to working with colour, composition, form and texture, in both prints and paintings.”

-Remembering Paris, 2009, Acrylic and giclée on canvas, 48″ x 60″

-Coffee in Taipei, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 48″ x 60″

-Remembering Tunis, 2011, acrylic and giclée on canvas, 48″ x 60″

-Study in Surfaces, 2007, acrylic and giclée on canvas, 48″ x 60

Heywood, who grew up in Galt, Ontario (now Cambridge), has been making art since his studies at Ontario College of Art in the early ’60s. He is a master printmaker, painter, and fibre artist whose work has been shown across North America and Europe. He is based in Montreal. 

J.C. Heywood’s website, here.

Video Clips, here.