The Golden Age of Cornish Art
Adrian HEATH

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Abstract still life
(1959) 50 x 60cm oil on canvas £9,975


Black and Orange Abstract
(1961) 56 x 30cm gouache £6,650

Adrian Heath (1920-1992)
Born in Burma, Slade trained Adrian Heath became a painter of abstracts and semi-abstracts in oils and acrylic; a collagist and a constructivist. As a prisoner of war he met and taught Terry Frost and in 1949 and 1951 visited St Ives where he met Ben Nicholson. An academic career took him to Bath Academy of Art, the University of Reading, the University of Sussex and Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education.

His work has been exhibited at home and abroad, notably at the Tate Gallery, London and the Hircshorn Gallery, Washington. He died in 1992 in France.