Adrian Heath

This is a thoroughly enjoyable read and informative on an artist who is widely recalled but only in scattered short texts.’ Margaret Garlake, art historian For the first time, Jane Rye paints a rounded portrait of Adrian Heath’s life and career, presenting a first-rate selection of work from his entire oeuvre. Her text gives a clear account of the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s in particular, and Heath’s place within the theories and practice of abstract art in the post-war period in general.