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PATRICK HERON: THE COLOUR OF COLOUR
Paintings 1965 - 1977, 7 October - 17 December 2021

PATRICK HERON: THE COLOUR OF COLOUR: Paintings 1965 - 1977

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  • Video INTRO Please click below to watch a film introducing Patrick Heron and the exhibition: Image: A view of the...

    Video INTRO 

    Please click below to watch a film introducing Patrick Heron and the exhibition:

     

     

     

    Image: A view of the garden at Patrick Heron's home, Eagles Nest, in Zennor, St Ives, 1985. Photography © David Ward, courtesy the Estate of Patrick Heron 2021.

     

     

     

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    PATRICK HERON: THE COLOUR OF COLOUR

    7 October - 17 December 2021
     
    INTRODUCTION BY JAMES HOLLAND-HIBBERT

     

    This is the first exhibition of Patrick Heron’s work to be held at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert since taking on representation of the artist’s estate. Focusing on a pivotal period in Heron’s career from the mid-sixties, it reveals a truly decisive shift towards a more personal language based upon colour and form. Gone are the soft-edged circles and squares which defined his previous work, replaced instead by his ‘wobbly, hard-edge’ forms, a reference to the more linear work included in this show.

     

    Colour pervades Heron’s work; it is at the heart of his oeuvre, the means and content of his painting.  It also became the ‘subject’ of his painting and later led him to sharpen the boundaries between contrasting juxtapositions of colour; in the artist’s words, ‘the sharper the division between colour, the more intense the colour will be’. The work is the result of Heron’s experience of looking acutely at the world.  Although the pictures do not directly represent the garden and landscape of his home and studio in Cornwall, the forms of these surroundings resonate in his painting in fundamental ways and whilst his work undoubtedly broke new ground in the post-war British abstract movement it still found its place in a figurative, and a very much European, tradition. His significant contribution to abstract painting and his influential research into colour theory was instrumental in teaching a new generation of artists about the relationship between colour, form and space, while his art criticism helped the public to gain a better understanding and appreciation of international modern art at large.

  • E-CATALOGUE Please click below to read the e-catalogue with introductory essay by Martin Gayford: Image: Patrick Heron in Porthmeor Studios,...

     

    E-CATALOGUE

    Please click below to read the e-catalogue with introductory essay by Martin Gayford:

     

     

    Image: Patrick Heron in Porthmeor Studios, St Ives (c.1977). Photography © David Ward, courtesy the Estate of Patrick Heron 2021.

     

  • List of oil paintings

    • Dark Purple and Ceruleum : May 1965

      Dark Purple and Ceruleum : May 1965

    • Square Green with Orange, Violet and Lemon : 1969

      Square Green with Orange, Violet and Lemon : 1969

    • Dark Red with Brown and Violet : April 1975

      Dark Red with Brown and Violet : April 1975

    • Orange in Yellow with White : 1969

      Orange in Yellow with White : 1969

    • Violet and Dark Red : 1969

      Violet and Dark Red : 1969

    • Rumbold Vertical I : Emerald in Reds : February 1970

      Rumbold Vertical I : Emerald in Reds : February 1970

    • Big Complex Diagonal with Emerald and Reds : March 1972 – September 1974

      Big Complex Diagonal with Emerald and Reds : March 1972 – September 1974

    • Orange on White : c.1972

      Orange on White : c.1972

    • Ceruleum, Violet and Venetian : 1977

      Ceruleum, Violet and Venetian : 1977

    • Sixteen by Twenty : January 1977

      Sixteen by Twenty : January 1977

    • Complex Ceruleum in Dark Green Square : March – August 1977

      Complex Ceruleum in Dark Green Square : March – August 1977

    • Violet in Mars : July – September 1977

      Violet in Mars : July – September 1977

  • ‘The ‘wobbly hard-edge’ which is a feature of all my work since 1965 has itself become the source, or vehicle I should perhaps say, of what still looks to me to be a limitless variety of spatial ambiguities or mysteries. Most obvious of these spatial ambiguities or contradictions are those cases where the ‘drawing’ of the outline of a colour-area implies recession but its colour generates the opposite sensation of something protruding – or vice versa.’

    Patrick Heron, ‘The Shape of Colour’, 

    The Power Lecture in Contemporary Art, 1973

  • List of works on paper

    • [Untitled 20], c. 1968

      [Untitled 20], c. 1968

    • Brown, Venetian and Red : August 1969

      Brown, Venetian and Red : August 1969 

    • November II : 1972

      November II : 1972

    • [Untitled 21] , c. 1970

      [Untitled 21] , c. 1970

    • October II : 1973

      October II : 1973

    • December I : 1973

      December I : 1973

    • October V : 1972

      October V : 1972

    • October VII : 1972

      October VII : 1972

    • April II : 1973, 1973

      April II : 1973, 1973

    • October III : 1972

      October III : 1972

    • December I : 1972

      December I : 1972

    • April VIII : 1973

      April VIII : 1973

  • Gallery Opening Hours, 38 Bury St, St James's, London, SW1Y 6BB

    Gallery Opening Hours

    38 Bury St, St James's, London, SW1Y 6BB

     

    7 OCTOBER - 17 DECEMBER 2020

     

    Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm

    Saturday 11am - 5pm

     

    Please click here for more information about visiting the gallery.

     

  • Biographical Photos

    Eagles Nest Garden, May 1985  Photography by David Ward © David Ward (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Patrick Heron in his studio at Eagles Nest with Complex Interlocking Red, Blue, Olive, Yellow : April 1968  Photography Delia Heron, © the Estate of Patrick Heron 2021 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Paintings in progress at Porthmeor Studios, 1969  Photography Patrick Heron, courtesy of the Estate of Patrick Heron 2021 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Patrick Heron in Porthmeor Studios, St Ives with paintings in progress in 1969  Photography by Jorge Lewinski, © Jorge Lewinski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Eagles Nest, 1979  Photography Patrick Heron © the Estate of Patrick Heron (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Poster for The Power Lecture, 1973 with DARK PURPLE AND LEMON IN ORANGE : JANUARY 1962 in the background, at Eagles Nest Photography Richard Demarco, © Demarco Archive (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Eagles Nest Garden, May 1985  Photography by David Ward © David Ward (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Patrick Heron in Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, 1966 painting Three Cadmiums, Five Discs : April 1966  Photography by Delia Heron, © the Estate of Patrick Heron (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Paintings in progress at Porthmeor Studios, 1977  Photograph by Mark Trompeteler, © Mark Trompeteler (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Eagles Nest Garden, May 1985

    Photography by David Ward © David Ward

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