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Patrick Heron was an abstract painter, writer, and designer who made noteworthy contributions to the development of abstract art. His work was devoted to the analysis of natural forms and colors. From his Abstract works, particularly those made up of horizontal or vertical stripes, to his softer-edged shapes, he regularly uses color to express the pleasure of sight as one of the most important human senses.
Patrick Heron was born in 1920 in Headingley, Leeds, in Yorkshire, England. After living in Cornwall his family moved to Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire in 1929. In 1933, he began to paint under the influence of Paul Cézanne after visiting the National Gallery in London during a school trip. Five years later, working for Cresta Silks, Patrick Heron designed his first silkscreen. Then in 1937, he became a part-time student at the Slade School of Fine Art in London for two years. In 1940, he worked as an agricultural laborer in Cambridge and Welwyn Garden City for four years before becoming an assistant at Bernard Leach's Pottery in St. Ives in Cornwall, in 1944. In 1945, he moved to Holland Park after marrying Delia Reiss. He was art critic for the 'New English Weekly' for two years before having his first one-man exhibition at Redfern Gallery in London, in 1947. Patrick Heron's early work included many figurative studies such as 'The Gas Stove' (1946) but the painting 'The Boats and the Iron Ladder' (1947) showed the direction he was moving towards with its complex patterning and unusual use of colors. His early work was influenced by Georges Braque and Henri Matisse.
Patrick Heron first met the American Abstract Expressionists in London in 1956, during an exhibition at the Tate Gallery, and he soon started to paint in an abstract style, as seen in the paintings Square Leaves (1956) and Winter Harbour (1955).
帕特里克·赫倫是一位抽像畫家，作家和設計師，他為抽象藝術的發展做出了顯著的貢獻。他的工作致力於自然形式和顏色的分析。從他的抽像作品，特別是那些由水平或垂直條紋組成的作品，到他柔軟的邊緣形狀，他經常用色彩來表達視覺樂趣，作為人類最重要的感官之一。
Patrick Heron於1920年出生於英格蘭約克郡利茲Headingley。在康沃爾郡居住之後，他的家人於1929年搬到了赫特福德郡的韋林花園城市。1933年，他在學校之行訪問倫敦國家美術館後，開始在保羅塞尚的影響下畫畫。五年後，帕特里克赫倫在克雷斯塔絲綢公司工作，設計了他的第一個絲網印刷。然後在1937年，他成為倫敦斯萊德美術學院的兼職學生兩年。 1940年，他在劍橋和韋林花園城擔任農業工人四年，之後於1944年成為康沃爾郡聖艾夫斯的伯納德利奇陶器的助理。1945年，他嫁給了Delia Reiss後搬到了荷蘭公園。 1947年，他在倫敦Redfern畫廊舉辦了第一次一人展覽，之後兩年擔任“新英語周刊”的藝術評論家。Patrick Heron的早期作品包括許多形象化的研究，如“The Gas Stove”（1946），但畫作“船與鐵梯”（1947年）展示了他朝著複雜的圖案和不尋常的顏色使用方向發展。他的早期作品受喬治布拉克和亨利馬蒂斯的影響。
1956年，帕特里克·赫倫在倫敦泰特美術館的展覽上首次與美國抽象表現主義者見面，他很快就開始以抽像風格繪畫，如1956年的Square Leaves和1955年的Winter Harbor的繪畫。