Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Patrick Heron; Delia Heron (née Reiss); Katharine Heron; Susanna Heron NPG x131103

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Born in Leeds, Heron spent much of his childhood in Cornwall and studied at the Slade in London (1937-9). A conscientious objector, he worked as an agricultural labourer and then at the Leach Pottery, St Ives. His first mature painting dates from 1943, with his first solo exhibition in 1947. In 1945-6 he wrote for the New English Weekly and was art critic for the New Statesman and Nation (1947-54). Among his most influential writing is The Changing Forms of Art, published 1955, when his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.