Cadmium and Light Red
- Artist:
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Production Date: 1967
- Description: Shape and colour are perhaps the two defining components of Heron‘s artworks. The egg shape, often found within artwork by the St Ives modernists, also appears here and he uses this, along with the two shades of red, to suggest form and void. Of his work he said, ‘There is no shape that is not conveyed to you by colour, and there is no colour that can present itself to you without involving shape. If there is no shape then the colour would be right across your retina‘ (Michael McNay, ‘Patrick Heron, St Ives Artists‘ 2002 Tate Publishing). Despite the solid shapes and blocks of colour, his works retain a lightness due to the way in which the coloured forms float on and among each other. This painting, alongside another of his works, Cobalt and Indigo in Ultramarine, was one of the first purchased for the Art Collection in 1967.
- Dimensions: Canvas: 122.5 cm (H) x 153.5 cm (W)
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store
- Related Material: AC/AF/H/10
- Related Material: AC/OF/1967/4
- Accession Number: 1967.4
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
