Printed by Kelpra Studios, London, their stamp (K7499) verso
The angular shapes with dramatic strong colours are typical of the artist's works made in the 1960’s and ’70’s. Heron was an important member of the St Ives School and suggested that these represented the fields, rivers, lakes and seas of his native Cornwall viewed from up high in the sky. As well as painting and tapestry design, Patrick Heron has also designed a stained glass window for the Tate Gallery in St. Ives and designed a kneeler to encircle the Henry Moore altar at St. Stephen Walbrook in London.
This is a landscape-format screenprint by Patrick Heron that forms part of his January 1973 series of nineteen prints (the rest of the portfolio is in Tate’s collection, Tate P04290–P04307). The series is made up of six different drawn abstract compositions that have been subjected to different colour variations. This was a process Heron followed in much of his printmaking through the 1970s, commencing with his first prints made under the direction of the printer Chris Prater at Kelpra Press in 1970 (a sequence of fifteen prints made in April 1970, Tate P04272–P04286).