Edinburgh Early Evening, John Heywood.
John Heywood studied art at Lancaster University, before moving to Edinburgh, where he has spent most of his adult life. He developed his drawing skills through the classical discipline of life drawing before he joined the Printmakers Workshop in the mid 1980s.
He now works almost exclusively in the medium of Etching. He looks for the magical or romatic in every day scenes and is particularly inspired by the light and variable topography of Edinburgh.
This picture hangs on one wall of the office.
John Heywood studied art at Lancaster University, before moving to Edinburgh, where he has spent most of his adult life. He developed his drawing skills through the classical discipline of life drawing before he joined the Printmakers Workshop in the mid 1980s.
He now works almost exclusively in the medium of Etching. He looks for the magical or romatic in every day scenes and is particularly inspired by the light and variable topography of Edinburgh.
This picture hangs on one wall of the office.
And its panoramic effect has been exaggerated by doubling the size, with passepartout and framing. It previously hung above the chimneypiece in our dining room in Edinburgh.
There was a specific design effect sought here, utilising the space between a pair of verdigris bronze sphinxes, and picking out the cream silk of the curtains and chair cushions. The gold frame has flecks of red, mirroring the gold and red of the chairs.
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