Patrick Heron moved from figurative still life and landscape into an influential abstract language of floating color shapes. Based in Cornwall, he was also a major critic who argued for color and space as central modernist concerns.
Painting; writing
Major Works
- 1956Azalea Garden
- 1957Horizontal Stripe Painting
- 1956 onwardGarden Paintings
- 1972Big Complex Diagonal with Emeralds and Reds
- 1969Cadmium with Violet, Scarlet, Emerald, Lemon and Venetian
- 1973January 1973: 4
- 1954The Blue Table with Window
- 1956Red Garden
- 1958Vertical Colour Stripe Painting
- 1990sLate Garden Paintings
Interviews & Writing
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