Patrick Heron (1920-1999)

Heron comments 'it is obvious that colour is now the only direction in which painting can travel. Painting still has a continent left to explore; in the direction of colour (and in no other direction)...it seems obvious to me that we are still only at the beginning of our discovery and enjoyment of superbly exciting facts of colour...I therefore have the feeling that colour determines the actual shapes, or areas, which balance one another in my work' (see Exhibition catalogue, The Challenge of Post-War Painting: New Paths for Modernist Art in Britain 1950-1965, London, James Hyman Gallery, 2004, p. 44).