“ … the restricting conventions of sculpture … were inhibiting my responses to nature in other ways than the merely formal, particularly the sense of place and atmosphere and mood.”

DERWENT WISE

“He sees the medium of relief sculpture as the middle ground between painting and sculpture.”

ANDREW BURTON, THE HATTON GALLERY

“I worked across the two disciplines, primarily in the making of reliefs, where painting was ancillary to sculpture, but, at best, indivisible from it.”

DERWENT WISE

“… his sense of curiosity and investigation into what he sees has led him to work in drawing, sculpture, relief and painting… a vibrant dialogue which emphasizes the diversity of creative activity.”

ANDREW BURTON, THE HATTON GALLERY

“I have been fortunate in having been able to have two careers in my practice as an artist, initially as a sculptor and then, later, as a painter.”

DERWENT WISE

“Derwent Wise was a maker. He was not concerned with image or fame but with the physical making of art.”

JOHN MILNER, ART HISTORIAN