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17/04/2026

Opens Saturday 25th. All welcome.

09/04/2026

03/04/2026

Just started 5th and final painting in China. Things getting inventive now, I got bored of myself and I have started using white, I know right, the devils work.

28/03/2026

It is 30 years since I first made a grass painting in 1996. After graduating from the RCA, it was the first series of paintings I made out of college. And all my shows in the late 90s included these paintings. It was about finding the optimum brush, colour, medium mix and surface to paint the perfect grass painting. In the year 2000 I made the biggest one to date, 180 by 240cm, and decided that was enough. 100s of tests and paintings were made during this intense search for the perfect grass painting, which of course didn’t exist. I returned to the series every few years, I recall commissions in 2004, 2008, a version was printed of the inner sleeve of Peter Gabriel’s ‘New Blood’ album in 2011. I incorporated a section of grass painting in a large mural for a mother and baby unit, a commission for Hospital Rooms in 2019. Then on my first visit to China I was surprised and delighted to see that every building hoarding in China was filled with a digital version of my grass paintings. It renewed my interest in the series and I returned to my UK studio with an idea to pick the series up again. Now back in China, a few years later, I am going to make the first large grass painting for some time. Everytime I have re-approached this way of working I make several tests, drying times, the nature of the mark, the tone and hue of the primer and the mix of colour with mediums is all crucial and makes each iteration quite a mission. It serves as a limbering up for the larger painting. Hopefully by this time next week I will have a new grass painting to show at the end of April at Bounded Space gallery in Beijing. The first grass painting to be made and shown in China. Home of the grass hoarding.

22/03/2026

16/12/2025

100th surf - I thank you!!!! Beautiful send off today at Perranuthnoe. The target set with from was 125 for 2025. I’m confident he can still achieve this before the end of the year, but without his encouragement I wouldn’t have made 100. You never regret a surf, even if you don’t have the best of times, but you can give yourself a whole host of reasons why not to get in, so having someone to motivate you is super important, thanks Ben. I’m off to Japan, so was very satisfying to reach 100 the day before I leave. And given I took on more responsibility this year at work, getting in the water was not just more difficult it was also more important. Get wet, get totalled, get out. Simples.

06/12/2025

It worked well in the space but was very different last night in the dark to today - I when everyone just gazed out the window at the Atlantic thundering in on Porthmeor beach as the sounds from Simon Martin and Chris Tosic’s piece played scripted but unrehearsed.

06/12/2025

It worked well in the space. And was very different last night in the far to today when everyone just gazed out the window at the Atlantic thundering in on Porthmeor beach as the sounds from Simon Martin and Chris Tosic’s piece.

05/12/2025

Much going on today and this weekend. Starting at Porthmeor studios today. I have invited Simon Martin and Chris Tosic to present a sound work they have collaborated on. Friday 5 December
Porthmeor Studios
5pm – 9pm
Drinks will be in the Borlase Smart Room


Saturday 6 December
Porthmeor Studios
11am – 2pm

Trewarveneth Studios
1pm – 4pm

Abigail Reynolds: Walking A Ca****la opens
4pm – 5.30pm at Newlyn Art Gallery
5pm – 7.30pm at The Exchange
Kate Walters is also showing Drawings Born in Italy in The Picture Room at Newlyn Art Gallery. It is all going on, I think the Tate are even doing something……

21/10/2025

‘Any way up’ is on until 8th November. Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
11 Church Street
London NW8 8EE, UK

Opening times
Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 5pm
Or by appointment.

16/10/2025

Saturday morning 10-12 for a Breakfast opening. And just around the corner .gallery is also holding a breakfast opening. Bag yourself two croissants for the price of one trip. Hope to see you there. Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
11 Church Street
London NW8 8EE, UK