Patrick Heron
(1920-1999), Painter and art criticSitter in 14 portraits
Artist of 5 portraits
Born in Leeds, Heron spent much of his childhood in Cornwall and studied at the Slade in London (1937-9). A conscientious objector, he worked as an agricultural labourer and then at the Leach Pottery, St Ives. His first mature painting dates from 1943, with his first solo exhibition in 1947. In 1945-6 he wrote for the New English Weekly and was art critic for the New Statesman and Nation (1947-54). Among his most influential writing is The Changing Forms of Art, published 1955, when his work became predominantly abstract. In 1956 he bought Eagles Nest in Zennor, Cornwall, where his family had lived in the late 1920s. The house became a centre for artists and writers in St Ives and central to all Heron's work.
Patrick Heron in The Camellia Garden at Eagles Nest
by Susanna Heron
Iris print, 1998
NPG P710
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
NPG x131101
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x31624
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x199300
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x199983
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x199984
Patrick Heron; Delia Heron (née Reiss); Katharine Heron; Susanna Heron
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1961
NPG x131103
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1961
NPG x132979
by J.S. Lewinski
bromide print on card mount, 1964
NPG x13723
by J.S. Lewinski
bromide print on card mount, 1969
NPG x13724
by Philip Sayer
colour print from original transparency, 1985
NPG x76421
by Sir Charles Robert Saumarez Smith
resin print, circa 1995
NPG x87732
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