Patrick Heron was a painter, designer, and author who made noteworthy contributions to the development of abstract art. Employing the term “non-figurative” to describe his exploration of vibrant color ...

The name Patrick Heron may not register with the Bay Area art audience, all the more reason to see the selection of his mature work at Hackett-Freedman. Heron (1920-1999) has an indelible place in ...

Patrick Heron was a painter, designer, and author who made noteworthy contributions to the development of abstract art. Employing the term “non-figurative” to describe his exploration of vibrant color ...

Heron himself had not started as an abstract painter but he shared what Gillian Ayres defined as the postwar generation’s obsession with “what can be done with painting”. For Heron and others such as ...

From the tiny painting that Heron considered his first mature work – The Piano (1943), painted in response to Matisse’s The Red Studio – Heron’s work went through several major phases but ...

Art historian Michael Bird visits St Ives to explore the bond between groundbreaking abstract artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron, who formed an unlikely and lifelong friendship. Show more Art ...