“At the heart of his work lies a continuing engagement with those aspects of the visual world which excite him: nature, landscape, machines, architecture.”
ANDREW BURTON, THE HATTON GALLERY
Monthly Archives: July 2014
White Sculpture | 1966 | foreground with Amphibian | 1978 | back left and Positive Negative | 1975 | back right Retrospective Exhibition The Hatton Gallery 2006-7
North Shore Holy Island | Acrylic on Paper | 1999 | 36 x 85 cms | Private Collection
“I am, in a sense, self taught, but have always worked closely with painters … such as Ian Stephenson and Richard Hamilton. I was particularly helped by the interest of the late Kenneth Rowntree and Norman Adams.”
DERWENT WISE
“These are certainly a sculptor’s paintings …. He loved the well made dry stone wall, the shapes of a yard, the relation of a tree to the wind, rock and soil.”
JOHN MILNER, ART HISTORIAN
“Since about 1980 I have worked exclusively as a professional, exhibiting painter.”
DERWENT WISE
“Close inspection reveals structures of intricate complexity in the juxtapositions of walls, roofs, gates and sheds that Derwent had studied like minute plans for relief sculptures.”
JOHN MILNER, ART HISTORIAN
“ … my work was becoming increasingly concerned with the use of colour … particularly in its relationship to form … to study colour in the context of straightforward objective painting from nature.”
DERWENT WISE
“… he became increasingly aware of the difference between the use of colour in the reliefs and in painting and found that painting allowed him to convey a greater emotional depth.”
ANDREW BURTON, THE HATTON GALLERY
“… division of space, rhythm and colour are equally apparent … By rotating the painting Interior and Garden, Low Fell (1982) by 90 degrees, the comparison between his sculptural reliefs and painting is striking.”
ANDREW BURTON, THE HATTON GALLERY