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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Thomas Millie Dow, Bernard Leach, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Christopher Wood, Raymond Ray-Jones, Tony O'Malley, Ben Nicholson, Bryan Pearce, Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Peter Lanyon, Frances Hodgkins, Kurt Jackson, John Noble Barlow, Janet Leach, Ronald Ferns, Sydney Laurence, Anthony Benjamin, John Hoskin, Bryan Wynter, Albert Moulton Foweraker, Simon Nicholson, List of St Ives artists, Trevor Bell, William Holt Yates Titcomb, Terry Frost, Adrian Scott Stokes, St Ives School, William Marshall, Roger Hilton, John Wells, Patrick Hayman, Faust Lang, Rose Hilton, Seb West, Sandra Blow, Alan Lowndes, Anthony Frost, Breon O'Casey, Richard Short, Algernon Talmage, Luke Frost, Gwilt Jolley, Bob Crossley, Paul Feiler, Bob Law, Denis Mitchell, Jessica Cooper. Excerpt: Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 - 20 March 1999), was an English painter, writer and designer, based in St. Ives, Cornwall. Born at Headingley, Leeds in Yorkshire in 1920, he was the son of Thomas Milner Heron and Eulalie 'Jack' Heron (nee Davies), the first of four children (Michael, Joanna and Giles). His father was a clothes manufacturer, pacifist, socialist and leading member of the Leeds Arts Club. In 1925 the Heron family moved to West Cornwall where T M Heron took over the running of Crysede and four years later the family moved to Welwyn Garden City where Tom founded the firm Cresta Silks . It was here at his new school that Patrick Heron met his future wife Delia Reiss, daughter of Celia and Dick Reiss (R.L.Reiss, co-founder of Welwyn Garden City ). He attended St. George's School in Harpenden and on a school visit to the National Gallery, London in 1933 saw paintings by Paul Cezanne for the first time. He immediately began to paint in a Cezanne-influenced style. Shortly after this he was...
