Heath Hearn at Westcroft, October 2008

Heath Hearn left the Rame Peninsula twenty years ago to find his way into the art world. Now, after living and working assiduously as a painter in America, France and Jersey, he has decided to return to the [place that first inspired him to become a professional painter. With two decades of exhibitions and projects behind him, Heath has established his name both nationally and internationally, drawing the attention of wealthy patrons and art collectors along the way.

Rame, with its timeless beauty and rugged landscape is the main inspiration for this latest body of work. Abstraction and primitivism are the main forms of expression, using the abstraction to merge both nature and man-made structures to form one coherent composition. 'Rame' is a collection of observations, from simple beach-combing finds, to the more immense and dramatic, such as Plymouth Sound's breakwater. This work is a musing of the sights and objects found in and around this magical peninsula.

“Most of my landscapes do not focus on the beauty of nature alone, but more on the fragile and sometimes crude relationship between man-made structures and the natural environment. Rather than make a visual distinction between the two, I try to merge them together, as with all things they will inevitably revert back to nature. I try to express the beauty of that 'reclamation' – my own abstract interpretation feels like another extension of that process.”