Patrick Heron
Patrick Heron is an English painter born on January 30th 1920 and died on March 20th 1999 which lived with St Ives in Cornouailles. Born with Leeds, it passed its childhood to St Ives then it becomes pupil in Slade School off Fine Art (1937-1939). It starts again to paint after the second world war while working as assistant in Atelier of Pottery of Bernard Leach to St Ives (1945). He taught with the School Exchange off Fine Art (1953-1956).
He was an influential Art critic for the New Stateman and T He Nation between 1947 and 1950 and the London correspondent of the review Arts of 1955 à1958. He is the author of The Changing Forms off Art in 1955, Ivon Hitchens in 1955, Braque en1956.
Its work is influenced initially by Henri Matisse and Georges Braque in a figurative style, although later it developed a style abstracts makes colors surprising and of following groundwork imbricated in that the American Ecole of New York. Its first personal exposure takes place in London in 1947 in Redfern Gallery, in New York at Bertha Schaefer Gallery en1960. In 1952 it is present at the Biennale of Sao Paulo with 12 fabrics.
Heron was also draftsman of reasons for printed fabrics. He wrote a book The Shape off Color (1978), in which he analyzes the natural forms.
Part of this most consequent work disappeared in the incende which devastated the warehouse of storage of Momart on May 24th, 2004.
One finds many tables reproduced on the site of The Tate Collection online.