Claude Heath

The son of an artist, Heath chose to study philosophy rather than art, and then in the mid 1990s made a series of portrait-drawings while blindfolded, using touch as sole means of ascertaining form. He extended this technique to make three-dimensional drawings, using Perspex mounts and coloured inks, of the horizontal outline and vertical contours of Ben Nevis, a favourite subject for eighteenth century watercolourists. ‘The drawing becomes an extended act or performance, started with the intention of physically carrying out or seeing through an idea,’ he writes.

Claude Heath  - Head (Drawing 137)

Head (Drawing 137)
1995
Signed, numbered and dated lower right:
137 24.2.95 C HEATH
Coloured biro on paper
70x50 cm / 27½x19¾in

 

Claude Heath  - Majorca Tree

Majorca Tree
2000
Signed lower left
Acrylic ink, coloured pencil, correction fluid
and pencil on paper
19.5x55 cm / 7¾x21¾ in

 

Claude Heath  - Two Heads (Drawing 142)

Two Heads (Drawing 142)
1995
Signed lower left, numbered an dated lower right:
HEATH … 142 28.7.95
Black biro on paper
69.5 x 100 cm/27½ x 39¼ in