First Light
Artist: John Heywood-Waddington
"First Light", 2024. Oil on canvas. 100 x 130cm
The figures are like ghosts, barely discernible spectral forms, suggested in the colour fields. As I’ve returned to this subject, the paint itself has become more foregrounded, and the figures ghostlier - near abstractions.
I wanted to capture a sense of the sea as a beguiling container of all these mysteries, these past lives… suggestive of the stories it conceals beneath the waves. It can stand as a metaphor for memory’s fluidity.
Born in 1977 in Chelmsford, Essex, my enthusiasm for art began when I was at school. Graduating in 2022 with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School, I currently live and work in Deptford, where I share a studio at Second Floor Studios and Arts.
Artist: John Heywood-Waddington
"First Light", 2024. Oil on canvas. 100 x 130cm
The figures are like ghosts, barely discernible spectral forms, suggested in the colour fields. As I’ve returned to this subject, the paint itself has become more foregrounded, and the figures ghostlier - near abstractions.
I wanted to capture a sense of the sea as a beguiling container of all these mysteries, these past lives… suggestive of the stories it conceals beneath the waves. It can stand as a metaphor for memory’s fluidity.
Born in 1977 in Chelmsford, Essex, my enthusiasm for art began when I was at school. Graduating in 2022 with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School, I currently live and work in Deptford, where I share a studio at Second Floor Studios and Arts.
Artist: John Heywood-Waddington
"First Light", 2024. Oil on canvas. 100 x 130cm
The figures are like ghosts, barely discernible spectral forms, suggested in the colour fields. As I’ve returned to this subject, the paint itself has become more foregrounded, and the figures ghostlier - near abstractions.
I wanted to capture a sense of the sea as a beguiling container of all these mysteries, these past lives… suggestive of the stories it conceals beneath the waves. It can stand as a metaphor for memory’s fluidity.
Born in 1977 in Chelmsford, Essex, my enthusiasm for art began when I was at school. Graduating in 2022 with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School, I currently live and work in Deptford, where I share a studio at Second Floor Studios and Arts.