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Biography 
30.1.1920
Born in Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire, Engl. (UK)
1925 - 1929
Lived near Newlyn, and in Lelant, Zennor and St Ives, Cornwall, before moving to Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, September 1929
1934
Designed first silk square for Cresta Silks, London
1937 - 1939
Part-time student at Slade School of Fine Art, London
1940 - 1944
Agricultural labourer, Cambridge and Welwyn Garden City
1944 - 1945
Assistant at Bernard Leach’s pottery, St Ives
1945
Moves to Holland Park, London
1945 - 1947
Art Critic for The New English Weekly
Annual visits to St Ives, until 1954
1945 - 1958
Critic for New English Weekly, New Statesman and Nation and Arts (New York)
1947
First solo exhibition Series of talks on contemporary art commissioned by BBC Third Programme, London
Art critic for The New Statesman and Nation (until 1950; further contributions to 1955)
1950
First exhibition with the Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall, St Ives. Continued to exhibit with the Penwith Society at regular intervals until the late 1970s
1950 - 1954
Occasional reviews in Art News & Review
1953 - 1956
Taught at Central School of Arts and Crafts, London
1955
London correspondent for Arts Digest (later Arts), New York
1956
Moves to Eagles Nest, Zennor, Cornwall
1958
Moves into Nicholson’s studio at Porthmeor, St Ives
1958
Resigned from Arts
Took over Ben Nicholson’s studio at Porthmeor, St Ives
Mural panel commissioned for London Offices of Percy Lund Humphries
1967
Visited Australia, lecturing in Perth and Sydney
1973
‘The Shape of Colour’, Power Lecture in Contemporary Art; delivered in Sydney; Brisbane; Canberra; Melbourne; Adelaide; Perth Represented Great Britain at the first Sydney Biennale, in the Opera House
1978
‘The Colour of Colour’, E. William Doty Lectures in Fine Arts, delivered at University of Texas at Austin
Patrick and Delia Heron made honorary citizens of Texas by order of the Secretary of State for Texas
‘The Shapes of Colour: 1943–1978’, book of screenprints, Kelpra Editions, Waddington and Tooth Graphics
1979
Delia dies 3 May, Zennor, Cornwall
1980 - 1987
Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London
1981
Commissioned to design tapestry for University of Galway, Eire
1982
Hon. D. Litt., University of Exeter
1983
Appeared in Patrick Heron, BBC Omnibus, directed by Colin Nears, 13 March
1985
Appeared in Painting the Warmth of the Sun, a TSW production for Channel Four, directed by Kevin Crooks, 7, 8 & 9 April
1986
Hon. D. Litt., University of Kent
Appeared in South Bank Show: Patrick Heron, an LWT production, directed by John Read, 9 February
1987
Hon. Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London
1988
Visited Moscow and Leningrad on behalf of the Tate Gallery, London
1989
Hon. Ph.D. CNAA, Winchester School of Art
Visited Japan to lecture at the opening of ‘St Ives’ exhibition, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Made second visit to Moscow and Leningrad on behalf of the Tate Gallery, London
1989 - 1990
Artist-in-Residence, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1990 - 1993
Two tapestries made from Sydney gouaches by Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
1991
Visiting Artist, International Art Workshop, North Otago, New Zealand
Honorary FRIBA
Designed nine silk banners for Tate Gallery bookshop, London
1992
Designed coloured glass window for Tate Gallery, St Ives (official opening June 1993)
Designed three silk banners for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
Designed kneeler to encircle Henry Moore altar at St Stephen Walbrook, London
1996
Honorary Fellow of Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds
1996 - 1998
‘Big Painting Sculpture’, Stag Place, Victoria, commissioned by Land Securities in collaboration with Feary & Heron Architects
1998
Commissioned to make a series of etchings with Hugh Stoneman for Paragon Press entitled ‘Brushworks’
Awards
1959
Awarded Grand Prize (International Jury) in John Moores Liverpool Exhibition II, Walker Art Gallery
1965
Awarded Silver medal in the VIII Sao Paulo Bienal
1977
Awarded C.B.E.
Public Collections (British)
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Basildon Arts Trust
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford
C.E.M.A., Belfast
National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, Belfast
Birmingham City Art Gallery
Bristol City Art Gallery
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Bishop Otter College, Chichester
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Exeter Art Gallery
Cornwall House, Exeter University
Harrogate Fine Art Collection
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leicestershire Education Committee, Leicester
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Barclays Bank Collection, London
British Broadcasting Corporation, London
British Council, London
British Museum, London
BP Chemicals, London
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London
Chancery Securities plc, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Deutsche Bank, London
Government Art Collection, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., London
RIBA, London
Shell-Mex Limited, London
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Granada Television, Manchester
Manchester City Art Gallery (Rutherston Collection)
Royal Bank of Scotland, Manchester
Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle University
Norwich Castle Museum
Oldham Art Gallery
St John’s College, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Merton College, Oxford
Methodist Church Collection, Oxford
New College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
Pembroke College, Oxford
Plymouth City Art Gallery
Southampton Art Gallery
University of Stirling
Cornwall Education Committee, Truro
Wakefield City Art Gallery
Bretton Hall, University of Leeds, Wakefield
National Education Archive, Bretton Hall, Wakefield
Arts Council of Wales
University of Warwick
Public Collections (International)
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney University
The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta
London Art Gallery, Ontario
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Vancouver Art Gallery
University of Galway, Ireland
Marubeni (UK) plc, Japan
Ohnishi Museum, Kogawa Prefecture
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam
Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
First National Bank of Chicago, Illinois
Summit Capital Group LLC, Houston, Texas
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
The University of Oklahoma
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
20.3.1999
Died in Zennor, Cornwall, England (UK)
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Public exhibitions 18
until 24.5.
Modern and Contemporary Prints
 OSBORNE SAMUEL, London (England)
Solo shows 1
2005
Patrick Heron - Gouaches from 1961 to 1996
Waddington Galleries, London (England)
Group shows 16
2007
Aspects of Modern British Art and recent ceramics by Jason Wason
Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England)
Spotlight on St Ives
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire (England)
2006
Patrick Heron, Jonathan Lasker, Katie Pratt
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (England)
Modernism in St Ives
Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
2005
EDITION
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
20th CENTURY BRITISH ART
OSBORNE SAMUEL, London (England)
St Ives to Newlyn 'Hard Edge to Contre-Jour'
Caroline Wiseman, London (England)
the Print Show
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
2004
Out of Place: Works from the Pier Arts Centre Collection, Orkney
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
English Prints from the Collection
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Challenge of Post War Painting
James Hyman Fine Art, London (England)
Twentieth Century British Art - In association with Scolar Fine Art
OSBORNE SAMUEL, London (England)
2003
20th Century British Art 2003
Scolar Fine Art, London (England)
Pier Arts Centre Collection
Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
2002
British and American Art
Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England)
1999
Linhas de Sombra
Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Dealer Directory 16
Russia
Gertsev Gallery - Moscow, Moscow
United Kingdom
Anthony Hepworth Fine Art Dealers Ltd., Bath, Somerset (England)
Archeus, London (England)
Beaux Arts, London (England)
Jonathan Clark, London (England)
Richard Green, London (England)
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London (England)
James Hyman Fine Art, London (England)
Gillian Jason Modern & Contemporary Art, London (England)
Martin MacLeish Ltd, London (England)
Paisnel Gallery, London (England)
Waddington Galleries, London (England)
Offer Waterman & Co, London (England)
William Weston Gallery, London (England)
Caroline Wiseman, London (England)
USA
Gertsev Gallery - Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Public collections 12
Australia
The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Portugal
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
United Kingdom
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham (England)
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds (England)
NPG - National Portrait Gallery, London (England)
Tate Britain, London (England)
Tate Modern, London (England)
SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England)
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (England)
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