Peter Heywood (artist)
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Peter Heywood (born 1944) is a British artist and former teacher. During his art career beginning in the 1960s, he has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Malta, and the United States.
Peter Heywood was born in 1944 in Yorkshire. He attended Ossett Grammar School in Ossett in the 1950s, along with his identical twin brother Donald and their older brother, Alan.[1] Following his BSc degree, Heywood taught maths and physics for 30 years. He was voted Britain's Best teacher in 1995 in a national newspaper search.[citation needed] He devoted much of his free time to painting, sometimes alongside his brother Donald, an artist trained at the Leicester College of Art.[2]
Heywood's work began to be exhibited from the late 1960s. Some of his painting were displayed in the Spring Exhibition in Paris, and at a number of galleries in the UK. After a successful solo exhibition at the Aberbach Fine Gallery in Savile Row, London, he left teaching and became a full-time artist. For the next few years he travelled widely and lived in South Africa, where he created a series of landscapes. He had exhibitions in Johannesburg at the Cheri de Villiers Gallery and in Cape Town at the Everard Read Gallery and the Cape Gallery.[3]