Mr. Herriott's artistic background is inherited through his mother Jay
Herriott, who, at 95, paints and teaches oil painting actively in St.
Catharines. His Grandfather, Justin Herriott was renowned in Chicago as a
political cartoonist and a fine painter whose work hangs in the chicago
historical society.
He has studied the works of and collected the following through the auspices
& provenance of the Blair Laing Gallery of Toronto, Ontario and the Dominion
Gallery of Montreal, Quebec with Dr. and Mrs. Stern.
His collection has included these world-class artists:
Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Reg Butler Herriott's Credo Theory is to have an idea...solid thinking behind every work
of art. Each drawing is carefully conceived and structured prior to the final
painting.
He begins with working drawings of the concept and once satisfied with the
scale, dimension, and composition proceeds to transfer from the working drawings
to the large-scale on large canvas or fine heavy paper.
Herriott Bases his concepts upon basic forms and astronomic influences, the
cube, the sphere, the triangle, ellipse, hexagon, octagon. He loves
the beauty of the ical, pyramidal. Abstract shapes and forms, drawn, painted and
shaped in deep perspective, with the effect of the dimensions of the forms
evolving from the returning to attempt to disappear into the painting.
These forms and abstract hardedges structures are enhanced by the uses of
unusual colours, in fact, he has been influenced by the faded beiges, greys,
browns and blues of Art Deco and Art Nouveau, though still using the large hard
colours of red, yellow, orange and black in his abstracts. He is currently
painting highlights of using metallic coppers, bronzes and silvers on his
abstracts which, energize them with a subtle gleaming life. Even in the most
subdued natural light, the paintings in fact have the effect of separating
themselves from the wall, in their own dimensions.
Mr. Herriott's Abstract art is represented by important galleries
Pericle Fazzini,
Marino Marini, Giacomo Manzu, Emilio Greco
Zao-Wou-Ki of Paris, Jean Arp, Max
Ernst, Sarah Churchill
A patron & Collection of John Gould
Drawings
Inuit Whalebone of Cape Dorset & Granite of Tuktoyukyk
and can
be viewed at his residence/studio on appointment.
