Patrick Heron
Patrick Heron is a British born Abstract and Figurative painter born in 1920.
His work was influenced by Paul Cézanne, who's paintings he first saw when on a school trip to the National Art Gallery in London in 1933. He began painting in a similar style to Cézanne afterwards.
At the age of 17, he attended the Slade School Of Art for two days every week,
In World War II, he registered as a conscientious objector, and worked as an agricultural labourer for three years, and then at the Leech Pottery in St. Ives between 1943 and 1944, where he met artists such as Ben Nicholson and Babara Hepworth, and many other leading artists, who attended the St. Ives School.
In 1943, he completed his first mature work 'The Piano' shortly after seeing Matisse's 'The Red Studio' at the Redfern Gallery.
Heron's writings about art began in 1945, when he was invited by Philip Mairet, the editor of The New English Weekly to contribute to the journal. His first published article was on Ben Nicholson, followed by essays on Picasso, Klee, Cézanne, and Braque.
Two years after, he became the art critic for the New Statesman until 1950. He also became the London correspondent to Arts Digest, New York.
In 1947, Heron began painting a series of portraits of T.S.Eliot.
His garden paintings of 1956 marked a singular achievement within the British Period of Art.
His work was influenced by Paul Cézanne, who's paintings he first saw when on a school trip to the National Art Gallery in London in 1933. He began painting in a similar style to Cézanne afterwards.
At the age of 17, he attended the Slade School Of Art for two days every week,
In World War II, he registered as a conscientious objector, and worked as an agricultural labourer for three years, and then at the Leech Pottery in St. Ives between 1943 and 1944, where he met artists such as Ben Nicholson and Babara Hepworth, and many other leading artists, who attended the St. Ives School.
In 1943, he completed his first mature work 'The Piano' shortly after seeing Matisse's 'The Red Studio' at the Redfern Gallery.
Heron's writings about art began in 1945, when he was invited by Philip Mairet, the editor of The New English Weekly to contribute to the journal. His first published article was on Ben Nicholson, followed by essays on Picasso, Klee, Cézanne, and Braque.
Two years after, he became the art critic for the New Statesman until 1950. He also became the London correspondent to Arts Digest, New York.
In 1947, Heron began painting a series of portraits of T.S.Eliot.
His garden paintings of 1956 marked a singular achievement within the British Period of Art.
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