Adrian Heath – Untitled

Adrian Heath was a seminal figure within the modern British art movement, helping to not only push abstraction onto an unwilling British public he also took influences from European masters who were much overlooked at the time.

Having studied under Stanhope Forbes in 1939 he went on to attend the Slade school of art before serving in the RAF as a tail gunner in Lancaster bombers during World War ll.

Having being shot down he spent a great deal of war as a prisoner in Stalag 383 during which time he became great friends with Terry Frost and taught him how to paint using whatever materials they could find at the time.

Heath went on to become a central figure of the abstract movement within the UK acting as a link between emerging artists of the St Ives school and British constructivism and becoming great friends with artists such as Nicholson, Lanyon and William Scott. Exhibiting from the 1950’s In London Europe and America Heaths work combined elements of geometry, proportion and symmetry whilst also overlaying elements of the human form making him a particularly individual artist who’s works are housed in various public collections including:

The Tate Gallery

The Hirshorn museum Washington, USA

The Victoria and Albert Museum

Whitworth Gallery, Manchester