BIOGRAPHY

 

 

 

Mister Denham, founding member of the New

British Naives, began painting twenty-five

years ago in Hong Kong, when his wife wanted

something ‘Cheerful’ to brighten the walls of their high-rise

teaching apartment in Kowloon.

 

He was born in 1946, at a time when rural farming

communities in England were about to undergo

sweeping post-war changes, and the nation’s

youth were on the verge of reshaping traditional

social values, at all levels.

 

Entirely self-taught, his paintings [and the stories

which accompany them] reflect the healthy bucolic

spirit of those transitional times, and are presented

in a bright, splendidly original way.