{"title":"John Heywood-Waddington","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCity and Guilds London School of Art, 2022\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"statement\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeemingly quick, gestural marks conceal space one moment and open up the next. A highly collectable emerging artist, John Heywood - Waddington's paintings constantly toy with questions of how much to give the viewer... often erring on the line of ‘just enough’, ensuring a two-way relationship - this concealment is an act of generosity - opening up the paintings to a universality that make his work so compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn 2024 John completed his first art residency at Nocefresca in Sardinia. He’s also had a number of paintings selected by Collectum, a New York-based art consultancy, who will also be showing his artwork at the AVA hotel and gallery in Cancun in 2025. John had artwork selected for the AKA Winter Exhibition, the Pastel Society annual exhibition in the Mall Galleries, the Green \u0026amp; Stone Gallery Winter Show and the Hampstead Art Society online works on paper. In 2025, he will be exhibiting as part of a collective called Dreamscapes with four other artists at XYZ gallery space, in Chancery Lane.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/emerging-artists-gaining-recognition\/\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"statement2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Making use of gestural, expressive brushwork in my paintings, I’m interested in movement, rhythm and intensity of feeling, and the interplay of abstraction and figuration.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe human figure has always been a strong inspiration for subject-matter, fuelling my ideas. My paintings are rooted in physicality and the body. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeriving much of my source material from personal photos, observational drawings and sketches, there is often a suggested narrative - though the viewer can draw their own conclusions. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere are two narratives in my paintings. One is the representational, figurative and the other is process-driven, where painting becomes a subject itself. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy work often originates in a recognisable world: from pub interiors, recreational scenes in rural landscapes; stormy seas with freezing bathers, or ghostly, semi-abstract seascapes to urban milieus in which figures look off into the distance, absorbed in solitude, facing the unknown future. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese are everyday scenes - fragile, fleeting moments that I aim to distil in the painting. One of the qualities painting has, for me, is its capacity to magnify and slow down these fleeting moments, distilling the incidental detail, peculiarity and beauty in the apparently mundane.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRecurrent themes and motifs are landscape, both metaphorical and physical - the vulnerability of the human within nature, time’s transience, the solace of the past yet also the ambiguities and illusions of memory.\"  \u003cbr\u003e- John Heywood-Waddington\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"artist_exhibitions\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"h4\"\u003eGroup Exhibitions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2025) Hampstead Art Society Works on Paper Winter Exhibition, Regent's Park Gallery, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2025) ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2025) Pastel Society Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2025) Works on Paper Annual Winter Exhibition, Green and Stone Gallery, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2025) \"Chimeras\", Dreamscape Collective, XYZ Project Space, Chancery Lane, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2025) Annual Online Winter Exhibition, Hampstead Art Society, Online\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2025) Ava All Art Programme, Collectum Art Advisory, Cancun, Mexico\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2024) Wells Art Contemporary, Well Cathedral, Wells, Somerset\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2024) The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2024) BTA Art Prize Online Exhibition, Behind The Artist, Online Exhibition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2024) Annual Winter Exhibition, AKA Contemporary, Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2023) Gaia, Camden Image Gallery, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2023) Deptford X, Isla Ray, Badger Badger, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2023) Accessible Art Fair, SOTA Marketplace, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2023) 7 Artists at 7 Stratton, 7 Stratton Street, Mayfair, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2023) A Generous Space 3, Artist Support Pledge, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2023) The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2023) Art on a Postcard, Hoxton Gallery, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2022) London Paint Club, Selects, Vol. 2, pop-up show, Koppel Project X, Piccadilly, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"h4\"\u003eCompetitions, Prizes \u0026amp; Awards\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2024) Art Residency award, Nocefresca, Sardinia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2025) Arteles Creative Centre Art Residency, Finland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blue-remembered-hills","title":"Blue Remembered Hills","description":"","brand":"John Heywood-Waddington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58023400243532,"sku":"INV-HEYJ-0006","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/0135\/2524\/files\/5b2adeb8-5e18-4663-bd2d-8064133d110c-l.jpg?v=1783537720"},{"product_id":"stream","title":"Stream","description":"","brand":"John Heywood-Waddington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58023400276300,"sku":"INV-HEYJ-0007","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/0135\/2524\/files\/ed459257-467b-416c-9338-aaf8ee1c355b-l.jpg?v=1783537721"},{"product_id":"spring-rain","title":"Spring Rain","description":"","brand":"John Heywood-Waddington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58023400309068,"sku":"INV-HEYJ-0008","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/0135\/2524\/files\/fefcc35e-caf4-4a26-8255-8c33d98f90f6-l.jpg?v=1783537720"},{"product_id":"rainy-day-london","title":"Rainy Day London","description":"","brand":"John Heywood-Waddington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58023400374604,"sku":"INV-HEYJ-0009","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/0135\/2524\/files\/e11fb1af-a9f7-4f48-9f1c-72d7baab64d0-l.jpg?v=1783537720"},{"product_id":"manaslu","title":"MANASLU","description":"","brand":"John Heywood-Waddington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58023400440140,"sku":"INV-HEYJ-0010","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/0135\/2524\/files\/e6687df6-9de1-4552-98ad-0328eb008aaa-l.jpg?v=1783537720"},{"product_id":"dawn","title":"Dawn","description":"Charcoal, pastel and acrylic on gessoed 300gsm paper, framed with AR glass","brand":"John Heywood-Waddington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58026808901964,"sku":"INV-HEYJ-0001","price":700.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/0135\/2524\/files\/46434b2d-3bcf-491e-8a51-3544959ac7dc-l.jpg?v=1783568544"},{"product_id":"presence-haukijarvi","title":"Presence (Haukijarvi)","description":"Acrylic and conte crayon on canvas. 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