Previous Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2004 Inaugural Touring Exhibition - Daut Pasha Hamana, Skopje Macedonia
2002 Recent Paintings - Harlequin Gallery, Greenwich, London
"A View of St. Ives 2" - Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
"Recent Work" - Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London
2001 Belgrave Gallery, London
2000 City Gallery Valdimir Dimitrov Masta, Kjustendil, Bulgaria.
Euro Bulgarian Cultural Centre, Sofia, Bulgaria
1998 Museum of the city of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
1997 FOURTH RETROSPECTIVE, GREAT BRITISH PAINTERS OF
THE 20TH CENTURY, ELMSCOTE LAWN SCHOOL,WARWICK
1994 Psychedelia, 30th anniversary of Carnaby Street Gallery,
London. Belgrave Gallery, one man opening show.
Imagination and Reality, Bede Gallery, Jarrow with R B Kitaj
1992/93 THIRD RETROSPECTIVE, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
1989 SECOND RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Yorkshire
1988 Birch and Conran Fine Art, London Psychedelic Paintings
1986 Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones Kiosco Alfonso, La Coruna, Spain
1985 With John Piper at the Bede Gallery, Jarrow
1984 Black Light, Windsor Arts Centre, Berkshire
1980 Time Piece, Bede Gallery, Jarrow
1974 Loggia Gallery, Black Light Ballet with Jim Hastie - Ballet
master, Scottish National Ballet, and Janet Webb, in association with the Margaret Morris Dance Movement
1973 FIRST RETROSPECTIVE, Playhouse Gallery, Harlow, Essex.
Bede 1300 Festival, Bede Gallery, Jarrow
1972 Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond. Galleria La Tavolozza, Bergamo, Italy
1971 Greater Victoria Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
1970 Galleria Il Salotto, Como, Italy
1969 John Whibley Gallery, London. Galleria De Il Giorno, Milan
1965 Galerie Wirth, Berlin, W Germany. Forum Galleries, Bristol
1964 Queens University, Belfast, N Ireland. Galerie Dagmar Wirth, Berlin, W Germany
1963 The Molton Gallery, London. Galerie Im Griechenbeisl, Vienna, Austria
1962 Galleria D A Bergen, Norway
1961 Drian Gallery, London. Galleria Numero, Florence, Prato, Rome
1959 Redfern Gallery, Recent Paintings with Cecil Beaton
1958 Redfern Gallery, London. Lawrence Adler Galleries, Johannesburg
1957 New Vision Centre Gallery, London
1956 New Vision Centre Gallery, London

Mixed Exhibitions

2005 "Denis Bowen, Peter Davies, Bob Osborne and Stan Davis" - New Gallery, West of England Royal Academy, Bristol
2004 "Porthmeor" - Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
"Fire & Energy" - Harlequin Gallery, Greenwich, London
"The Autumn Show" - Thompson's gallery, Marylebone, London
"Sharing A View" - Quarr Gallery, Swanage, Dorset
2003 "Sharing A View" - Derby Museum & Art Gallery
"20th Century British Prints" - Scolar Fine Art at the Original Print Fair, London
"World Calligraphy Biennale of Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
"Three Creative Passions" - Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea - curated by Em Young Ahn.
"International Selection" - Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Eire
"Museum Collection" - Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
2002 "Small Paintings & Prints" - Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
2001 Belgrave Gallery. First of the summer painting Group Show, Huddersfield Art Gallery.
2000 Aspects of FPS 1952-2000, Loggia Gallery, London. Harlequin Gallery, Greenwich. A View of St Ives, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall. International Art Colonies, Kicevo Cultural and Information Centre, Skopje, Kitka, Kumanovo, Veles. City Gallery, Vladimir Dimitrov, Kjustendil, Bulgaria. Euro Bulgarian Culture Centre, Sofia, Bulgaria. International Art Colony, Kumanovo 2000, National Museum Art Gallery, Kumanovo Cultural and Information Centre, Skopje, Macedonia. Kytka Art Colony. Also Nuremberg, Germany. Art Palm Beach, international fine art exposition, Florida, USA (Whitford Fine Art). Small is Beautiful, Flower Street, West Bergamot Centre, LA, USA.
1999 An Eclipse Exhibition and 1940s artist associated with St Ives, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall. St Joachim Osogovski, Kriva Palanka, Macedonia. Portobello Film and Video Festival, 'Denis Bowen' by Julian Morgan - a portrait of one of the 90s most prolific contemporary artists. International Painting Plein Air, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Art Colony of Galicnik 1990-99, Museum of the city of Skopje, Skopje Art Gallery, Broda Art Gallery, Stip Art Gallery, Kumanovo, Macedonia.
"Denis Bowen & Stephen Court" - Lupton Square Gallery, Honley, W. Yorkshire
"The Drawing and Paintings of George Claessen's 43 Group" - together with a seminar and video - University of African & Oriental Studies, London - organised by the "Ceylon Bloomsbury Group" in association with "The 43 Group", Colombo, Sri Lanka.
1998 Arts programme, HTV Bristol, Ben Savage. Geoffrey Hollow benefit exhibition, Beardsmore Gallery, London. Look Without Prejudice, St David's Hall, Cardiff. Sharing a View, Darwin College, University of Kent, Canterbury. Whitstable Museum and Art Gallery. Johnny's Art House, Horsebridge, Whitstable, Kent.
1997 Cosmopolis Diorama Gallery, London. Small Works, Artery Gallery, London. Works on Paper, Arts Alliance Gallery, Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada. Prints in special invited section. 'Limners' 25th anniversary show, Winchester Galleries, Victoria, BC, Canada. Fall Show, Olde Kirk Gallery, Shawnigan Lake, BC, Canada. Maltwood Art Gallery, University of Victoria, BC, Canada. New Acquisitions, donated by Pat Martin Bates FPS, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham. Bath International Fringe Arts Festival. Small Works by Big Artists, Viking Gallery, Jarrow Festival. Myth and Modernity of Welsh Artists, Rotunda Gallery, Hong Kong and the Oriel Ynis Mon Gallery, Llangollen, Wales. Sharing a View, APT Gallery, Deptford, London; Belgrave Gallery, London; Toll House Gallery, Clevedon. Government collection, Denizli, Ankara, Istanbul, Turkey.
1996 Four Painters, Lamont Gallery. Roger Hilton and Friends, Belgrave Gallery. Harlech Festival, Cymru. Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, Gwynedd. Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London. The Air Gallery, London (Glen Murano piece). Porte Accatone, Paris, Venice, Budapest, Skopje. Galerie Multi Media IESA, Salon International des Musées, City Gallery of Skopje. Art Pool Art Research Centre. Art Colony, Galichnik Daut Pasha Hamain, Republic of Macedonia. Works on Paper, Art for the 21st century, Arts Alliance Gallery, Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada.
1995 Royal Cambrian Academy Summer Show, Conwy, Gwynedd.
Curriculum Vitae, Segment, Porte Accatone, Paris. Royal Cambrian Academy, Oriel, Bangor Museum and Art Gallery, Royal Cambrian Academy, Visions.
1994 Giovanni Tieuli's Giuliano's Restaurant Project Hampstead Village. Royal Cambrian Academy Exhibition, Conwy, Gwynedd, 21 May-17 July; Taliesin Art Centre, University College of Swansea, 23 July-18 August; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 3 September-30 October; The Gallery, Folkestone Library, 7 November-3 December. Red
Ribbon Art Show 1994, The Imagination Gallery.
1993 The 60s Art Scene in London, curated by Dr David Mellor, Barbican Art Gallery, London.
1992 British Abstract Art of the 50s and 60s, Belgrave Gallery, London.
Free Painters and Sculptors 1952-62 March/April and summer show. Free Painters and Sculptors 1963-73 October/November, Loggia Gallery, London.
1991 Art in Boxes, England and Co, London. State of a Nation, Broup Beca, Carmarthen Library, Wales.
1990 Colour Values, St James's Gallery, London. Celebration 1990 Diorama Artists, Diorama, London. Works by British and international artists from the 50s and 60s, Bede Gallery, Jarrow. Halima Nalecz and Denis Bowen, Drian Gallery, London. Contemporary Art, Jardin d'Art, London. London Diorama Open Studios, London.
1989 Post-War British Abstract Art, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Bloomsbury, London. Two Decades of the Free Painter and Sculptors, Loggia Gallery, London. Six of the Best and Encore, Camden Art Gallery, London. Interior Faces, Portraits by Michael Woods and Harry Diamond, Crawshaw Gallery, London and Photogallery, St Leonards on Sea. Twenty-five Commemorative Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. 'Trends' FPS, Bloomsbury Gallery, London. Homage to the Square, Flaxman Gallery, London. Fourth International Art Fair, Olympia, Planet Fine Arts, London.
1988 Baghdad International Festival of Art. Celtic Vision, Dublin Millennium Celebration, Dublin.
1987 Celtic Vision - Gweledigaeth Geltaidd, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, Wales. Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales. Bede Gallery, Jarrow. The Newlyn Orion, Penzance, Cornwall. Vision Cente Centre Cultural, Graslin, Nantes, Brittany, France. Fellows of the Free Painters Group, Loggia Gallery, London. Invited Artists, Oriol Gallery, Cardiff, Wales. Premiere Biennale International des Arts, Alger. Algeria Diorama Art Fair, London. 'Halima in Wonderland, her paintings and Life', film on Halima Nalecz, directed by Marie Mrozek, Polish National Television, Polish Cultural Institute, London.
1986 New Vision 1955-56, The Knapp Gallery, Regents College, London. Jarrow - Impressions of a Town, Bede Gallery, Jarrow. Celtic Vision Inaugural Exhibition, Centro Conde Duque, Madrid. Vision Celta, Kiosco Alfonso, La Coruna, Spain. Celtic Vision, Glasgow Art Centre, Scotland. The Mark of the Hand, Aubrey Williams Documentary film, The Arts Council, Kuumba Productions. October Gallery, London.
1985 Post-War Printmaking, Redfern Gallery, London. Denis Bowen and
John Piper, Bede Gallery, Jarrow. New Vision 1955-56, Warwick Arts Trust.
1984 Sixteenth Likovna Kolonja, Pancevo, Yugoslavia. The Halima Nalecz Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Gdansk, Poland. Likovna Kolonja, 'Deliblatsk Pesak', Savremena Galerija, Centraza Kultura, 'Olga Petrov', Pancevo, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. New Vision Centre 1955-56, Bede Gallery, Jarrow.
1983 Fifteenth Likovna Kolonja, Pancevo, Yugoslavia. The Art Critics Art Show, Sandford Gallery, London. The 50s and 60s, Sandford Gallery, London.
1981 Celtic Artists, Windsor Arts Centre. Unicorn Theatre for Children Fund, Morley College Gallery.
1979 Primera Muestra Internacional, Morella Michoacan, Mexico. Time Piece, Bede Gallery, Jarrow.
1978 The Mechanised Image, Pat Gilmour, The Arts Council, Camden Arts Centre, London. The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle. The City Art Gallery, Portsmouth. Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield. Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. Aberdeen Art Gallery.
1977 Mixed Show, Bede Gallery, Jarrow. Symposium, Strumica, Macedonia.
The London Group, Royal College of Art, London.
1976 The Summer Show, Drian Galleries, London.
1975 Eight British Artists, Drian Galleries, London, The London Group.
1974 Tenth Year - il Sallotto, Como and Trieste, Italy. Arts Festival for Democracy in Chile, Royal College of Art, London. Galleria Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 80 + 21, Maurice Jadot and Fellows of the FPS, Mall Galleries, London.
1973 Galleria Il Salotto, Como - Silkarsko Ateljena Na Petar Mazev Skopje - An experiment with colour, music and dance with Nikola, Fidenovski, Petar Mazev, Simon, Semov and The Tankova Grupa, Denis Bowen and Peter Jankovic. Interview, BBC External Program to Yugoslavia. Paintings of the Museo de Solideriedad de Chili, ICA, London. Fan Fare for Europe, Drian Galleries, London. Panorama d'arte Il Centro Pavia, Italy.
1972 Collectiva per d'Estate Galleria de il Fiorno, Milan. Harlow Festival, Fluorescent Paintings, with Continuum. Eleventh Joan Miró Externational, Barcelona. Kinetic Art, West Wales Art Association, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. The Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh University.
1971 International Prints, Print Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Twentieth century British Painting, Bede Gallery, Jarrow.
1970 Recent Acquisitions, Greater Victoria Art Gallery, Canada. Seventeen Artists, La Galleria Triade di Torino, Italy. Galleria de il Giorno, Milan, Italy.
1969 Trends, Mall Galleries, London Group Shows, Miscellany, AIA Gallery, London. Fellows of the Free Painters Group, Qantas Gallery, London. Sixty works on Paper, AIA Gallery, London.
1968 Modern Art, Bath Festival, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Twenty Artists, AIA Gallery, London.
1967 Group shows 'Circumference', Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Collectors gallery, Bellevue, Washington, USA. Contemporary British Art, Medical Aid for Vietnam, Camden Studios.
1966 Group shows, British Abstract Painters, Lauderdale Museum, Miami, Florida, USA.
1965 Group shows, Harlow Arts Festival, Visual Arts. Modern Art Agency, Napoli, Italy. Leicester Collection, Kunstampt Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany.
1964 Gallery Wirth, Berlin Group shows. Twentieth century French and English painting, Redfern Gallery, London. Collectors' Choice, Manchster City Art Gallery.
1963 Galleria Modigliani Ronchi di Massa, Carrara Artisti di Avanguardia, Garden House, Napoli. Towards Art, Arts Council, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery. Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Art College, Bournemouth. Victoria Street Art Gallery, Nottingham. National Museum of Wales. Commonwealth Institute, Edinburgh.
1962 Europe 62, New Vision Centre, London. Towards Art 1952-62, Royal College of Art, London. Artisti Stranieri, Galleria Numero, Galleria Nazionale, Firenze. Ung Engelsk Kunst, Holst Halvorsena Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway. British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art. Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA.
1961 Mostra Internazionale di Arte Astratta, Galleria Nazionale, Pistoia, Italy. Ung Britisk Kunst, Galleri Art, Oslo, Norway. Piccolo Formato, Galleria Numero, Florence, Italy. Commonwealth Vision, Commonwealth Institute Gallery, London and Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne. Divergences, Qantas Selections, Drian Gallery, London. Finbarrus Gallery, Bath. Black and White, Moulton Gallery, London. Aspects of Collage, Brook Street Gallery, London. Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches, Rawinsky Gallery, London.
1960 Critic's Choice (Denys Sutton), Arthur Tooth's Gallery, London. Work purchased by Lord Drogheda. Continuum, Grabowski Gallery, London. Contemporary African Painting, Ibadan, to commemorate independence of Nigeria. Contemporary Art Society of New South Wales, David Jones's Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Option, Gallerie Grange, Lyons, France. New Vision Centre Group, at Galerie Taurus, Nijmegen. Galerie 31, Dordrecht. Galerie Orez, The Hague, and at the University of Leyden, Holland. Also at Het Hessenhuis, Antwerp. De Warande Gallery, Ghent, Belgium. Galerie Classing, Muenster and Galerie Weiss, Kassel, Germany.
1959 Sixty-sixth Spring Exhibition, Bradford City Art Gallery.
Ten Younger English Painters, Redfern Gallery, London. New Vision Centre Group, Cavendish Gallery, Dublin. British Serigraphs, Smith College, Northampton, Mass, USA. Heffer Gallery, Cambridge.
1958 Peinture Anglaise Contemporaine, Galerie du Peron, Geneva. John Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, London. The Christian Vision, Redfern Gallery, London. Four Painters, Univision Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Transferences, Zwemmer Gallery, London and USA Tour. Guggenheim Painting Awards Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Vers l'Avenir, Gallerie Colette Allendy, Paris. Junge Englische Grafik, Galerie 5, Reutlingen, Germany. Moderne Kunst in Wuppertaler Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle, Wuppertal, Germany. Guest artist, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, National College of Art, Dublin, selected by Victor Waddington. Portrait of the Artist, Tate Gallery. British Abstract Art, Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand. Richmond Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1957 AIA Gallery, London Contemporary International Painting. Oxford University Art Club, Ashmolean Museum, organised by Cedric Feather. Some Important Modern Paintings, Univision Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. La peinture Britznnique Contemporaine, Salle Balzac, Galerie Creuze, Paris. International Serigraphic Exhibition, Volkerkunde Museum, Munich. Peinture Anglaise Contemporaine, Musée des Beaux Arts, Liège. Dimensions: British Abstract Art 1948-1957, Lawrence Alloway and Toni del Renzio, O'Hana Gallery, London.
1956 Serigraphs, Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Mille Gravures en Couleurs, Redfern Gallery, London. International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Tokyo. British Serigraphs, Meltzer Gallery, New York. Group shows: Form and Experiment, New Vision Centre Gallery, London. Metavisual, Tachiste, Abstract, Redfern Gallery, London, selected by Patrick Heron. Pictures without Paint, AIA Gallery, London.
1955 The Free Painters' Group, London. Subsequently exhibitions - Looking at London, New Burlington Galleries, London. First prize selected by Gilbert Harding. Free Painters' Group, Galerie Creuze, Paris.
1954 The Free Painters' Group, Walker's Gallery, London.
1953 Exhibited first abstract paining with the Free Painters' Group, The Three Arts Centre, London.
1952 Mixed Exhibition, Odeon Cinema, Brixton (Lyall Watson) New Vision Group, Coffee House, Northumberland Avenue, London. (Assistant to Paule Vezelay, London Delegate of Group Espace.)
1950 New English Art Group, Piccadilly, London

National and Public Collections

Tate Britain, London
Welch Museum of Contemporary Art, Cardiff
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
Bezalel National Gallery of Israel, Jerusalem
Contemporary Art Society, South Australia
Toledo Museum, Ohio, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Oregon State College, USA
Leicester Education Authority
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Contemporary Arts Trust, Cambridge
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Wakefield City Art Gallery, Wakefield Education Authority
Palma Bucarelli Galleria Nazionale d'arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
National Gallery of Israel, Tel Aviv
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
City Art Gallery, Zagreb
School Loans Collection, Leeds
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
California Palace of the Legion of Honour
Greater Victoria Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
The Buhrle Collection, Financial Times, London
Memorial University, St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
Vincent Rea, Bede Gallery, Jarrow
Stanford University, California, USA
Galerija Grada, Zagreb
National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
The Halima Nalecz Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Gdansk, Poland
Department of Prints, British Museum, London
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Eire
Huddersfield Art Gallery, Yorkshire
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Chile
University of Ulster at Jordanstown, N Ireland
The Maltwood Gallery, Victoria University, British Columbia, Canada
Denizli Government Art Collection, Istambul, Ankara
Monte Carlo Casino
Museum of the city of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Pierre Rouve Foundation, London/Sofia

Awards

2004: The "13th November" award from the City of Skopje, Macedonia

Selected Bibliography and Writings

Herbert Read, Art Since 1945, Thames & Hudson, London.
Frank Avray Wilson, Art into Life.

2004 “Tuned In, Turned On, Still Far Out” by Geraldine Bedell – The Observer 6.6.04
2003 "20th Century British Prints" (illustrated) -Scolar Fine Art
"Modern British Art" (illustrated) - Sotheby's, London
2002 "ABC of the Collection" - Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
2001 "After Trewyn" by Peter Davies - Old Bakehouse Publications
"The Other Story of British Abstract Art" by Corrina Lotz - Future Socialist vol.9 no.3
"Bowen at 80" - Antennae in Galleries, May issue
"Brian Rice retrospective" catalogue - University of Brighton Cut Gallery
Fiona Gaskin, Artists and patrons, ed Margaret Garlake, Ashgate.
1999 David Buckman, The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1995, Art Dictionaries, Clifton, Bristol.
Peter Davies, The Art Book, Vol 6, No 1, January. Review of New Art New World.
1998 Margaret Garlake, New art - New World British art in Post-War Society, ISBN 0-300 07292-9, Yale University Press.
1997 The Limners, dedicated to Max Bates, titled after 'The Art and Dynamics of the Limners' by Patricia Bovey, director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC, Canada, and launched there in 1996.
1996 Saux, Allqemeiner Kunstlelexicon, Band 13, K G Saur, München-Leipzig. Tony O'Malley, Contemporary Art Summer, Peter Davies.
1995 Alex Seago, Burning the Box of Beautiful Things, Oxford University Press.
1993 David Mellor, The Sixties Art Scene in London, Phaidon Press Ltd, London.
Tate Report, Tate Gallery Biennial Report, Acquisitions: Archive Exhibition 1952-89.
1989 Graham Hughes, 'Letter from Baghdad', Arts Review, Vol XI, No 1, Art Monthly, February, No 123.
Keith Patrick, International Art Fair in Iraq. The Other Story, Hayward Gallery. Research for 1950s and 1960s section.
1988 Stella Santacaterina, Denis Bowen… British Artist, Frigidaire, Roma. Next, New Vision, No 9. Halima in Wonderland - her paintings and life, directed by Marie Mrozek, Polish National Television, Polish Cultural Institute, London.
The Mark of the Hand, a documentary film by Imra Caesar on the life and work of Aubrey Williams, October Gallery, London.
Brian Fallon, 'Celtic Vision', Irish Times, 24 November. Made member of the Limners Group, Greater Victoria, Vancouver
Island, British Columbia, Canada. Adjudicator, Newport National Eisteddfod Fine Arts Section, Cymru.
Tim Hilton, 'A World for Squares', Arts Guardian, 7 December; Homage to the Square, Flaxman Gallery, London.
CAS Distribution Show, Camden Arts Centre.
1987 Martin Green, 'Celtic Vision', Art Monthly, No 108, July-August. W E Johnson, Arts Review, 27 March.
Member of the International Jury, First International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Algeria.
1984 Simon Semov, Art and the Environment, Skopje, Macedonia. Margaret Garlake, The New Vision Centre Gallery 1956-66.
Anna Jesiak, Dzcennik Baltycki, IV, 13. Dorota Hill, Glos Wybrzeza, 22, 23. IX, Art Line, New Vision, December.
Arts Review, New Vision, December. Michel Seuphor and Michel Ragon Maeght, l'Art Abstrait, Vols 1-4 1939-70, Vol 3 1945-70, Vol 4.
1983 Katalog Museum Narodowe u Gdansku, Krystina Fabianski-Pryblycko, Melantwo Halima Nalecz.
1982 Fidanovski and Semov, Skopje Explodes in Colour, Performance Art.
1980 William Johnston, Points in Time: an autobiography, Borsie & Jenkins, London.
1976 E Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, nouvelle edition, Libraire Grand, Tome Seconde, Paris.
1974 Esme Berman, The Story of South African Painting. Pat Gilmour, Understanding Prints: a Contemporary Guide,
Waddington Galleries, 1973.
1972 Michael Shepherd, 'Art: Moments of Truth', Sunday Telegraph, 22 October.
Anthony Everitt FPS, Birmingham Arts Review, Vol XXIV, No 22, 1973.
W E Johnson, Northern Echo, 22 June. Arts North, 'An Exhibition for an Abstract Pioneer', 1 June, p8.
Shields Gazette, 1 June, p11.Reg Taylor, 'Art', The Journal, 27 June. Leonard Wyatt, Arts Review, Vol XXV, No 20, 6 October.
Max Wykes-Joyce, 'British Artists at the Drian Galleries', Arts Review, Vol XXVII, No 1.
1970 Enrico Crispolti, Correnti Contemporanee della Pittore Inglese, Mensili d'Arte, Fratelli Fabbri, Editore, Milan.
Esme Berman, Art and Artists of South Africa, A A Balkema, Cape Town. Bernard Denvir, 'London Letter', Art International, Vol XIV, illustrated.
1969 Alan Bowness, New Art Around the World: Great Britain, Harry C Abrams, New York. Kenneth Coutts-Smith, The Dream of Icarus, Hutchinson. Kenneth Coutts-Smith, Denis Bowen. Miron Grinde (ed), Adam International Review, Rochester University, New York, Nos 336/346 and Shenval Press, London.
1968 Oswell Blakeston, Arts Review, Vol XX, No 11, 2 June.
1967 Will Grohmann, Art of our Time, Thames & Hudson, London. Laurence H Bradshaw, Arts Review, Vol XIX, No 3, 18 February.
1966 Denis Bowen, Art Illustrated, p16. Conroy Maddox, Arts Review, Vol XVIII, No 4. Sheldon Williams, New York Herald Tribune, 5 April. Alan Davie and William Gear, National Gallery, Scotland. Introductions
by Christopher Brighton and Denis Bowen.
1965 William Gaunt, A Concise History of English Painting, Thames & Hudson, London. Publication for Solidarity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Robertson, Russel, Snowdon, Private View (New Vision Gallery),
Nelson, London. Oberosterr, Linz, Austria, 10 May. John Brundsen, Technique of Etching and Print Making, Batsford.
Sheldon Williams, New York Herald Tribune, Paris, 28 September.
1964 Premio Internazionale, Europa Arte (New Vision Centre), Silver Medal 'When Art Goes into Orbit', Belfast Telegraph, 23 October. Irish Times, 'Impressions of Space', Belfast, 28 October. Pierre Dorival and Alan Bowness (eds), La Galerie des Hommes Celebres, Mazenod, Paris.
1963 Frank Avray Wilson, Art As Understanding, Routledge.
1961 Gaston Diehl, The Moderns - A Treasury of Painting throughout the World, The Uffici Press, Milan.
1960 Maurice Deneve, La Derniere Heure, Brussels, 21 April. Denys Sutton, Financial Times, 19 January. The Times Literary Supplement, 'The Indigenous Romantic Temper', 9 September. Dimanche, Lyons, 'Option 60', 4 September. Nieuwe Gids, Brussels, 18 May. Jasia Reichardt, Modern Art in London, November. Michele Ragon, 'Huit Jours a Londres', Art International 1961, Cimaise, Paris, July. Eric Newton, The Guardian, 10 August. Denys Sutton, 'Apropos The Buhrle Collection', Financial Times, 3 October. F Guerrieri, Auditorium, Rome, November. J P Hodin, Quadrum 6, Brussels. The British Imagination, Cassell. John Russell, 'The Lurking Image', Sunday Times, 13 August.
1959 'Abstract Painting', The Irish Times, Belfast, 5 February. Discussion, Aesthetic Society, Birkbeck College, University of London.
1958 Feyyaz Fergar, Commonwealth Painters, BBC Turkish Services and Radio Cyprus, 22 July. John Coplans, 'Portrait of the Artist, Denis Bowen', Art News and Review, 21 June. Terence Mullaly, The Daily Telegraph, 19 May. Eric Newton, The Manchester Guardian, 3 June. Mervyn Levy, Painting for All, Odhams Press, London.
1957 Stephen Bone, 'The Art of Improvisation', The Manchester Guardian, 8 April. John Prossor, An Introduction to Abstract Painting, Apollo, October. Paris Notes (reproduction of 'Composition'), Apollo, November.
1956 Neville Wallace, The Observer, 1 June. G M Butcher, 'Abstraction Invades Oxford', Arts Review, November.