Denis Adeane Mitchell - Artist Info

About Denis Adeane Mitchell

  • Biography

    Following is the newspaper obituary of the artist by John Halkes, published in The Independent, Cornwall, March 25, 1993.

    THE SCULPTOR Denis Mitchell lived just long enough to hear the news of the opening of his last major solo exhibition at the gallery Flowers East at London Fields. This retrospective exhibition was first mounted in St Ives for his 80th birthday last June, and it encapsulated all his remarkable gifts which came from a long life dedicated to making art.

    Mitchell was born in 1912 in Wealdstone, Middlesex. At the age of one he moved to South Wales, his mother's home country, and it was in Mumbles and Swansea that he grew up and developed his interest in art and his zest for living...

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