Vivian Heywood – Life after Cornell

Vivian Heywood
Art, 1963-1988

Vivian Heywood paints in the upstairs studio of the Mount Vernon house she has inhabited since 1958. Most of her paintings are abstractions or semi-abstractions. “I like to play with forms and colors and put them into new meaning,” she explains. Her subject matter dictates the style or medium, which over the years has included oils, acrylics, watercolors, oil pastels, and recently, water-based oils. “Painting is very physical. I cannot paint sitting down. At this stage of my life, I am often limited to three or four hours of painting at a time,” she says.

Photos by Robyn Schwab Aaron ’07 (see additional emeriti photos)