Worthing Herald July 11th,1975
Flowers and things go on show here
Two members of Worthing Atelier Art Group,
Barbara Lockett and Bill Denman, with
Priscilla Balfour, are showing their paintings and drawings at
Batworth Park House, near Arundel, until July 23rd.……………………
Bill Denman's wash drawing, 'The Chess Game' is well observed and graphically
conveyed, and he shows several sensitive nude drawings,
one of which I much prefer to the subsequent paintings in which
the poor model's flesh tones looked pinkishly overcooked.
His sketch of 'Tarring High Street' is lively, as is the one sketch
'Sonderby Kynaes', and 'The Artist at Easel' is well composed
and effective in conception.
Tarring High Street
(Print)
HAVE-A-GO IN HIS PAINTING
Mr. W. Denman of the Atelier Art Group, is now showing his
paintings in the Connaught Theatre's restaurant until March 27th.
His work has a lively quality of vision, and he is certainly not afraid
to experiment both in his technical means, and his
approach to his selected subject matter.
In the pleasing Oil 'Cranes, Shoreham' he exploits the Impressionist approach to the rendering of light and colour, and produces a shimmering quality that is most effective,
whilst in 'Nude Pattern', he carefully explores each twist and
turn of plane and muscle in the bent back of the model.
In the 'Sunflower' - a much painted theme I have noticed -
he builds up a powerful series of rhythmical forms in space.
A picture I particularly liked was his 'Hay Bales',
with its composition based upon an X of line directions,
and painted in an unusual colour scheme for such a subject
but nevertheless very effectively done.
Of the slighter sketches I thought the oil pastel of 'Tarring High Street' was rather fun - Carried out with a nice sense of 'Let's have a go !'
Nude Pattern
(Not for sale)
Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung. April
18th 1980
Lord Mayor's Prize ( Translated from German )
The six prizewinners received their awards on
Thursday at the Exhibition of Free-time paintings
organised by the Culture Office and this newspaper.
The Lord Mayor's prize for the special group of
pictures showing the Past and Present of Osnabrueck
was judged by the jury to be won by Denman, an Englishman.
Our picture shows Denman with Lord Mayor
Weber. The exhibition in the Dominican Church
has so far been seen by 6000 visitors.
Neuen Osnabruecker Zeitung, November 26th 1981
William Denman has already been awarded a prize
for an exhibition by this newspaper. The Clasing
Gallery is now showing new and older works by the
Englishman in the small City Hall Gallery. Denman
has captured other Osnabrueck scenes such as our
example 'View of the Marienkirche '.
