[3] He initially taught art at high schools in Ontario, but went on to study etching with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris from 1967 to 1969.
[1] He enjoyed spending time proofing, trying out, and comparing all the implications of images, fixing to imbue the sum of this experience into the final print.
[3] Heywood had worked in a wide variety of print studios in Japan, Germany, France and India, and Canada.
[11] A major retrospective of his work titled J. C. Heywood: A Life in Layers was organized by Geraldine Davis with help from Linda Belshaw Beatty for the Burnaby Art Gallery in 2008.
Undaunted by the scope of the project he was always eager to recount stories about the people he had met, his adventurous experiences as an artist and his extensive travels".