![[title not known] by Patrick Heron](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd2w8kbdekdi1gv.cloudfront.net%2FeyJidWNrZXQiOiAiYXJ0ZXJhLWltYWdlcy1idWNrZXQiLCAia2V5IjogImFydHdvcmtzLzc2NTIyNmE1LWQxM2MtNDU2Ni1iOWQ4LTNkNDRmNmM1NjE5ZS83NjUyMjZhNS1kMTNjLTQ1NjYtYjlkOC0zZDQ0ZjZjNTYxOWVfZnVsbC5qcGciLCAiZWRpdHMiOiB7InJlc2l6ZSI6IHsid2lkdGgiOiAxOTIwLCAiaGVpZ2h0IjogMTkyMCwgImZpdCI6ICJpbnNpZGUifX19&w=3840&q=75)
Dimensions: unconfirmed: 670 x 800 mm
Copyright: © Estate of Patrick Heron. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2014 | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have an untitled print by Patrick Heron from the Tate Collection. It's a riot of colour – mainly blues, greens and a sort of rusty red. It feels like a glimpse of a garden through a rain-streaked window. What do you make of it? Curator: Rain-streaked, yes! For me it feels like a memory of a garden, filtered through emotion. Look at the way those colours bleed into each other, not quite contained, like feelings overflowing. Do you get a sense of joy from the composition? Editor: Definitely! The colours are so playful. It makes me want to grab some paints myself. Thanks for your insight. Curator: My pleasure! It’s a print that makes you feel rather than think, and that's quite wonderful, isn’t it?
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The suite of prints from which this etching is taken is one of the last works Patrick Heron made before his death. Over a period of three months between December 1998 and March 1999, Heron worked in his studio with the printer Hugh Stoneman, making drawings for fifteen works in total, from which he selected the eleven plates that make up the portfolio. He finished the drawing for the colophon page on the morning of the day he died. Heron approved the proofs and decided on a sequence for presenting the works shortly before his death. The etchings were printed posthumously, overseen by the artist’s two daughters.
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