The Art of Patrick Heron
This summer the Tate Gallery presents a major retrospective (0) exhibition of paintings by Patrick Heron, one of the leading (1) ____ in twentieth-century British art. Heron (2) ____ the early years of his (3) ____ in Cornwall, an influence that has (4) ____ with him. In 1956 he returned to a house at Zennor, (5) ____ Eagles Nest, with an extraordinary garden. Here the beauty of his (6) ____ inspired his work and he produced a series of garden paintings in (7) ____ forms are shown with colour, light and texture. Heron moved into pure abstraction in 1956 with a group of impressive, (8) ____ coloured canvases, including stripe paintings. He (9) ____ a leader of the major development of abstract art which was then taking place in Britain and which flowered in (10) ____ painting and sculpture in the 1960s.
In the 1980s Heron's art (11) ____ a new phase in which his inspiration seemed to be once more drawn (12) ____ from his natural surroundings.