“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
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“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
“ … 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