Edward Denyer was born in London, England Sept 28, 1917, and at the age of seven came with his family to the U.S. Raised in New Jersey, at nineteen he attended night classes at the 8th St Art School, knowing by then that his life would be devoted to painting. Stationed in the Pacific during World War II, he painted portraits of soldiers, and when the war ended he studied… (Read More)

There are certain individuals that one speaks of in terms of being larger than life. In the case of Ted Denyer, it is more a sense that he directly enters into life. His state of engaged aliveness, and his inquisitive nature are catalytic to our own experience of personal aliveness. Isn’t this characteristic of the creative energy of art upon us—a kind of awakening to the authentic, which is dormant… (Read More)

The act of painting has become a silent meditation within the ways of long looking between brush strokes. My mantra “what if,” the few forms, developed by drawing, follow a process similar to the painting to be, the difference being the addition of color. Where did they come from, these somewhat bland shapes? Truly from feeling a rightness of position, a position of the space (two dimensions) they now measure… (Read More)

Throughout much of my father ’s development as a painter he has been searching, it seems, for not only a way to express his vision, but to discover what he senses exists, a view beyond the possibility of ordinary vision. This way of working is more similar to a spiritual path than a contribution to contemporary art in that it constitutes a desire to come closer to the quality of… (Read More)

Ted’s paintings have a subtlety, beauty, and a power that are overwhelming. Years of work and perseverance have connected his spirit, inner intuition, his soul to the physical craft of painting. He has manifested for us, in the material world, to see and to ponder the connection between the Spirit, the Soul and the Body. For myself, I feel that he can truly be called a Messenger of the Spirit,… (Read More)