John Heywood-Waddington embraces the traditions and tropes of Western art history, poetic and cinematic devices, references and sensibilities in his work. His paintings express movement, rhythm and intensity of feeling in suggested narratives. Heywood-Waddington prizes the materiality of paint equally with the subject matter of his work. Working from representational photographic references, collages and drawings, Heywood-Waddington incorporates energetic brushwork in a performative painting process to create an interplay between abstract and figuration in his paintings.