J.C. Heywood

John Carl Heywood (June 6, 1941 – December 1, 2022) was a Canadian master printmaker, painter, fibre artist and teacher of printmaking whose work has been shown across North America and Europe.

Life and career J. C. Heywood was born on June 6, 1941. He died in Montreal on December 1, 2022, at the age of 81.

Work Heywood reinvented the way a print looks. He used the techniques of screenprint, etching, lithography, vectographs and digital prints and sometimes combined them. He had extensive experience including many exhibitions, lecturing, as a juror and as an assessor for universities. In 1995, he began a quilt-making project using his prints as a basis for quilts. A major retrospective of his work titled J. C. Heywood: A Life in Layers was organized by Geraldine Davis with help from Linda Belshaw Beatty for the Burnaby Art Gallery in 2008. His work is in many public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and the University of Alberta Museums Art Collection which has close to 200 of his works. A full list of the many collections that Heywood's works are in was given in the catalogue for his retrospective in 2008.

After moving to Montreal in 2006, J. C. Heywood pursued painting, applying to it his 40 years of printmaking methodology.

Legacy Starting in 2021, Heywood began working with the staff of mardenart gallery in the Pointe-Claire Village, Pointe Claire, Quebec to properly catalogue his life's work. "He spent many hours with staff at the gallery and at his studio. Undaunted by the scope of the project he was always eager to recount stories about the people he had met, his adventurous experiences as an artist and his extensive travels". Many of his travels influenced his work such as the Japan with Flowers, Tunisia & Vegetables, Coffee in Taipei, and India Laundry to name a few.