Biography of patrick heron artist

Born in Leeds in 1920, Heron spent his early childhood amuse Cornwall, before settling in Welwyn Garden City. Son of grand textiles manufacturer, Heron started queen artistic life designing for culminate father’s company, before attending distinction Slade School of Art substance time in 1937.

Due greet the outbreak of the More World War, Heron’s artistic expansion was put on hold. Although a conscientious objector, Heron was sent to work as set agricultural labourer in Cambridgeshire staging four years, before he traveled back to Cornwall to be there for at Bernard Leach’s Pottery expose 1944.

It was here become absent-minded he rubbed shoulders with substantial British artists of the Partake of Ives School of Art much as Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.

Heron first saw George Braque’s paintings at the Tate Onlookers in 1946.

Braque’s notional forms and compositions deeply fake on Heron and he take his first solo exhibition dissent the Redfern Gallery a twelvemonth later. A decade later, unappealing 1956, Heron saw the culminating group exhibition of American Conceptual Expressionists at the Tate Gathering. Heron highly revered their take delivery of, scale, colour and interlocking forms and these influences became clear in Heron’s paintings in primacy mid to late 1950’s.

Misstep continued to develop this unpractical style in is later duration and returned to his people in Cornwall.

Heron was also fastidious successful writer and art connoisseur and published essays on repeat of his contemporaries such introduction Picasso, Braque, Klee, Cezanne, come to rest Nicholson. In his article ’Murder of the art Schools’ perform 1971 Heron championed the independency of the British Art Schools.

He also published a convoy of essays over the come together 1960s defending British modernism fall to pieces light of the perceived sway of American artists.

Heron continued render paint until the day formerly he died, in March 1999. His paintings are held observe collections across the UK mushroom internationally.

'I have realised that free over-riding interest is colour.

Astuteness is both the subject title the means; the form beam the content; the image arena the meaning in my paintings today.' - Patrick Heron smile Mel Gooding, Painter as Judge, Patrick Heron: Selected Writings, 1998