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Oliver Heywood was entirely self-taught as an artist and described his work as a ‘kind of half-way point between the figurative and the abstract …. They are not usually pictures which reveal themselves all at once. They are to be gradually discovered’. After Eton and Cambridge, Heywood spent the War in the Coldstream Guards and then went on to study architecture. In 1947 he married Denise Wymondham Godefroi (photographer) and in the same year gave up his studies and took up painting full-time. Heywood lived most of his life in the Cotswolds near Stroud. His love affair with landscape extended beyond his surroundings to images of spartan Scottish coastlines, the parched terrain of remote Greek islands and the stunning wildlife of the African plains.
Nature in Art
Gloucester
Title
Hornbill, Bushbuck and Colobus
Date
1975
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 59.5 x W 100 cm
Accession number
2003.759
Acquisition method
gift from the Heywood family, 2003
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
signed Oliver Heywood 1975
