Denise Evans is a British fine artist from London, she studied at the Byam Shaw School of Arts in London, achieved her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art  (University College London – UCL) graduating in 1989. She has shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and achieved multiple awards and prizes for her exceptional work. During 1996 she travelled alone to explore and be influenced by landscapes of America and fell in love with its nature more importantly its deserts. Alone in a 1983 Jeep she explored the deserts of the West of the USA and was profoundly inspired. She moved to the Midwest of the USA in 1997 with the full intend of exploring the nature of the East and West to extend her artistic horizons. By the end of 1999 that fulfillment was lost when she became sick with Semi-Progressive Multiple-Sclerosis and Left and Right Temporal Epilepsy and drug resistant grand-mal seizures: Neurological illnesses during the next two decades began to dominated her life.

At the heart of her work is a concern for the internal; visual language for the psyche of the soul. She has never shied away from the autobiographical and like pen in ink she has used it as a well to draw from. Without question the strength of her drawing is remarkable and has been the strong foundation to her art of expression. Her visual language has never been divorced from words instead they have spilled over to become united within her visual artwork. Her bookwork ‘Dreams of Reality – Reality of Dreams’ the art critic Tony Godrey wrote of the piece:

“This is an extraordinary piece of work. It is one of the best attempts to provide an equivalent to different levels of experience – verbal and visual, confessional, anecdotal and speculative – I have read.”

Her art portfolio was accepted into art school when she was 17 and at 25 she achieved her PhD in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. She has been creating for nearly 40 years. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Oxford, England and has earned numerous awards and prizes.

She moved from London to rural Missouri in 1997. Shortly after moving to the United States she was stricken with a neurological illness that left her housebound and for many years bedridden. She dedicates her time and limitations only to focusing on her artwork.