Deon Venter in the studio with work from the Missing series.
“Everything in a Venter painting is available. You just have to work at it, grapple with it. In the end, it’s really a question of How Can Anything be Said? His work is truly magnificent and it is clear to me that he really is (a phrase I never use) a Great Artist. Of this there can be no question. He is a brilliant painter, wielding a vast and noble theme. His work has power, grandeur, epic ambition and reach, and a virtuoso attack.” Gary Michael Dault
“Deon Venter’s paintings are part of this artist’s search for meaning. This search involves memory, the moment of self recognition that accompanies any real inquiry into our state(s) of being. The art historical paradigm is referenced, and freely (re)interpreted.” John K. Grande
“Venter’s meditations on Leonardo have taken him and us to the “other side” not only in the sense of abandoning the temporal concerns of the physical world, but in their demonstration that there are many ways of seeing and knowing. What more can we ask of art?” Dr. Eva Seidner