What Critics Said...

Denis Bowen's latest work is remarkable enough for itself, in the strength of its imagery and the freedom and finesse with which the surface is handled, but quite as remarkable is its consonance with his work of the late 1950s, of that critical moment when the romantic, gestural strain in contemporary European painting was coming to terms with the shock of abstract expressionism from New York.

The old painterly energy has returned and with it have come a confidence and certainty that are quite new, an awarencss that where before the younger painter took the risk and feared the trouble, now he knows the risk is its reward. The painting is all ­ and these are very beautiful paintings.