Page 49 - Studio International - May 1966

A romantic and a constructionist

London commentary by Edward Lucie-Smith

Adrian Heath's current exhibition at the REDFERN GAL- tudes, but who still triumphantly survives. His new work
LERY is his first for three years. Looking at some of the is splendidly positive and spontaneous. In a sense, what
pictures in his studio before they went off to the gallery, the pictures symbolize is the painter's own appetite for
I was left rather ruefully repentant about all the hard living. As he moves around the cluttered room in which
things I've said about the British romantic painting of he paints, Heath pulls out a canvas, and begins to talk
the 'fifties'. Heath is a member of the 'middle' generation about the hard rectangle of blue which dominates the
who has not really moved very far from his original atti- upper part of it. It comes, he says, from the stretch of sea

Adrian Heath
Top left
Drawing
Gouache
11 x 9 1/2 in.
Top right
Untitled
Oil on paper
30 x 22 in.
Bottom left
Tendrara
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 in.
Bottom right
Rabat 1965
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 in.
'After the preliminary drawing
has been made, the idea goes
through many stages ... the
picture comes into being
through a long process of
metamorphosis.'