Veronica Heywood is a Graduate of the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London and came to live in Ireland in 1968 following a family holiday where she "fell in love with the country".
A circumstance for which Ireland can be justly grateful.
She worked initially as an illustrator for a Dublin advertising agency but it was not long before she embarked upon her own path and held her first highly successful one person show in the Wellesley Ashe Gallery Dublin in 1977.
Since that time she has continued as a professional painter and her work has been seen in many one person, group shows and in major galleries.

Her work and commissions can be found in private collections in Ireland, England, Europe and the USA. An experienced teacher she has worked on Youth Projects in Northern and Southern Ireland, taught in Colleges and Summer Schools and gives lectures and Masterclasses.

She has been a member of An Taisce since 1987 and is and is on the National Council of An Taisce, she is a member of the Irish Association of the United Nations & founder of "Eigse Laoghaire", the Dun Laoghaire Arts' Centres Multi-Cultural Arts Group.
Her paintings are delicately painted in soft hues and show great sensitivity in capturing the landscape.