The circular spaces in this work look as if they have been cut out from scraps of orange, blue and brown pieces of paper; like a collage. Each of these ‘cut-outs’ appear as if they are set against a rich background of deep violet. In actual fact though, this work is a screen-print which Patrick Heron has created by contrasting colours and forms against each other. The work’s sense of colour and its rhythmic arrangement of shapes – seems almost as if Heron has transformed a piece of jazz music into a visual composition. Heron considered colour to be a key subject of his art, a view he often expressed. Speaking in 1958, he said: 'My main interest, in my painting, has always been in colour, space and light.’ Colour, ‘…is both the subject and the means; the form, and the content, the image and the meaning in my painting'. His works became increasingly abstract, after he moved to Cornwall in 1956 and his understanding of colour in creating the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat canvas, became a key part of his artistic practice.
