Turner Contemporary exhibits never before seen late gouaches by Patrick Heron
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Turner Contemporary is exhibiting a group of never before seen late gouaches by Patrick Heron (1920-99), as part of the retrospective exhibition on view now in Margate. The group of seven gouaches on paper were produced in February and March 1999, in the last weeks of Patrick Heron’s life, and have never been exhibited publicly before. These vividly coloured paintings were produced in an extraordinary burst of creativity in the year following Heron’s major retrospective at Tate, after which he struggled to paint for some time. Encouraged by his daughters to begin painting again by making small works on paper, Heron returned to gouache, a medium he had used earlier in his career, most notably in the group of over forty topographical abstractions evoking the light and colour of the Sydney Botanical gardens during a residency at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1989/90. Between November 1998 and