This is the first exhibition of Heron’s work at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and includes pictures from the artist’s estate which have not been shown for many decades. It covers the period when Heron made the ‘wobbly, hard-edged’ paintings exhibited here. He was so enthralled by their effects on visual perception that he spent a decade or so exploring them.
Heron’s exceptionally sensitive eye for colour is as apparent in his earlier work as in his brilliant commentaries on the paintings of the three artists he revered above all others: Bonnard, Matisse and Braque. But it was with the type of paintings shown here that he made work that was fully immersed in the limitless realm of pure, abstract colour.