"The work in the show, however, that really brings you to a halt on your first quick turn around the gallery is that of Daniel Dempster. "

"The work consists almost entirely of the pattern of light on the gentle ripples of water over a sandy bottom and rendered with the most exacting precision. This is emphasised and set off by a small area of dark rocks, loosely rendered for contrast. That is all there is. It is both powerful and restful at the same time and the sandy greys of the almost monochrome colour scheme are at once warm and cool. The result is almost hypnotic and I was by no means the only viewer at the crowded opening evening to return to it again and again."

"Mr. Dempster has a unique eye and the technical facility to make the very most of it... extremely individual, spare, delicate, almost fragile perception of the unencumbered Bermuda that was here before man messed with it... brilliance of his water scenes... dramatic intensity... remarkably simple and startlingly successful..."

"Simplicity is the stuff of genius. Mr. Dempster deals with simplicity with no little success."

"... soft, gentle pastel drawings with which Mr. Dempster has already distinguished himself. The play of light through the water is this artist's chosen instrument and on it he plays with talent and versatility... another skein of light shimmering through the water washing through the interstices of flat, cracked rocks, demonstrates the artist at the height of his talent. The skill with which he blends the fluid with the firm and renders patterns of light as counterpoint to the formations and fissures in the rock is modestly downplayed by the gentlest of eyes and a nearly monochromatic colour scheme. It is the balance of Yin and Yang forces resulting in a natural peace remarkably satisfying to both life and spirit."

"...exquisite pencil studies of sea water shallows that look real enough to trail a hand through..."

"It is the best thing in the show and tells us a great deal about the artist, who has given us exquisitely understated drawings and paintings of close-up water and rock details that have been absolutely first-rate... This video is much the same water and rock scenes as are the best of his work... What his eyes see is quite remarkably uncommon..."

"The outstanding exception... abstract works by Daniel Dempster taken around the shores of Bantry Bay in Ireland. They observe in detail the interaction of clear water over or on textured rock or sand in much the same way as do the best of his painted and drawn works...Admirably presented in well chosen frames, these photographs display a carefully thought out colour scheme, a balance of texture and line hardly to be seen anywhere else in the show... these photographs to me were outstandingly the best in the show."

"... these steel plates were indeed enthralling. Their essential steeliness served as a counterbalance to the abstractionist impression created by the oxidation, frequently almost ethereal in quality, not unlike astronomers' photographs of the Magellanic clouds. In others, where one plate had lain flat against another, there were defining lines of varied oxidation that gave a random definition to the random oxidation... I was very pleasantly surprised and found the general impression to be both restful and energising, a curious combination of reactions. I know the artist has a fine and individual eye and this show attests to that again."

"... Mr. Dempster best encompasses this philosophy of the "spectacular in the mundane" in his collection of sandwiched stainless steel wall plates, gorgeously "hydro-optic" installations whose colourfully rusting surfaces suggest a new-age topography that change with time and the elements."

"...it works perfectly - the graphite shimmers on the canvas in light relief recreating perfectly the intricate interface of water. light and rock... the effects he has produced are a marvel which say more about the calm induced by Bermuda coast than a thousand representationalist reproductions of John Smith's Bay... the sense of depth created by walking across the front of one of his works deceives the eye so I felt I could plunge my hands into the water."

"The artist's inspiration was absolutely clear and the success he achieved with his painstaking techinique quite plain... immensely successful..."

"The drawings, paintings and sculptures that result may make you look at this neglected miracle of light, color and movement as if you had never seen it before..."Waterline" reproduces a shallow rivulet of tidal water with a startling degree of realism. It's almost as if you were standing barefoot near the shoreline, watching the water and light undulate in patterns across the sand under your toes... Dempster is the artist as seer, in fact... finding the mystery in the commonplace - then stepping out of the way as his audience looks on in wonder. In his drawings he accomplishes that aim through the persuasive argument of spectacularly keen-eyed detail."

"Time has been built into the work, hard wired into the concepts, change is natural and intended and inherent in concept. Instead of decaying with the years these works are intended to change with the years, evolve, carry into the future not only the physicality of change but also the resonance of past states."

"These exquisitely detailed drawings are not only a visual delight but, moreover, from the technical aspect the artist has taken the medium of coloured pencils to its zenith. There is nothing overdone, he uses each line or shaded area to render his subject in fine detail; nothing more and nothing less."

"Each piece is wonderfully detailed and delicate, resulting in a startling degree of realism. At first glance you see each piece for what it is, paper and pencil on a flat plain. But the more you look the more you become drawn into the space and marvel at the clever way in which Dempster has captured such ethereal qualities... Whatever Dempster makes you think, there's no getting away from the fact that they are beautiful works of art."