E Denney NeVille has always had an interest in art.  It was first evident when his parents saw he was intent and could not be discouraged from drawing on the wall next to his bed when he was still a toddler.  His interest in art persisted through grade school and on into high school.  In high school he was removed from gym class along with a couple of his friends for “. . .excessive, noisy laughter “.  He was placed in an art class, without protest, and thus his fate was sealed.   After two semesters of jr. college he was accepted at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California.  There he attended art school for one year then filled a two and a half year mission for the LDS Church in France and Belgium, returning to the Art Center where he graduated with honors.

 NeVille worked for two years as an illustrator for Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, CA. and two years in Reseda, CA assisting in animation production for Filmation Studios.

 By fall of 1970 he felt he had been away from his home state, Wyoming , for too long, so he moved with his wife Linda, to Billings, Montana, a two hour drive from his home town Byron, in the Big Horn Basin.  He spent six weeks with an architect firm in Billings before taking a job with Stan Lynde, lettering and inking Stan’s cartoon strip, Hipshot and Rick O’Shay.  This was a good experience and satisfied his innate desire to draw.  During this time he did a couple of hundred political cartoons for local papers and began to seriously paint and get his work out to the public.  After seven years the job with Stan Lynde ended when Stan discontinued his production of the strip.  “It was a good experience and I enjoyed my association with Stan.  I learned a lot from him—including, spelling is not often meant to be a creative endeavor.”

 In 1976 he moved his wife and small family to his home town in Byron, Wyoming.  He taught at a nearby jr. college for awhile, then started doing workshops while continuing to paint and do odd jobs (sometimes very odd), to help with the bills and family needs.  He is grateful his wife was willing to work when the need was greatest for the family.  It minimized the “starving artist”  period of our life together.  “Thank you, Linda.”

 Denney also enjoys writing humorous fiction of life’s challenges and disasters, “embellishing them with abundant imagination for greater clarity.”    Denney has been awarded the Pace Maker Award several times by the Wyoming Press Association for his articles and cartoon illustrations.

 Denney is represented by Big Horn Galleries in Cody, Wyoming and Tubac Arizona,

The Bozeman Trail Gallery in Sheridan, Wyoming, and Spirits in the Wind Gallery  in Golden,  Colorado.

 Denney is part of the Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show And Sale, and the Cheyenne Frontier Days Show and Auction.

 Awards:  Best of Show in the CM Russell Art Auction 1982

                Artist Choice in the Buffalo Bill Art Show and sale, 1997 and 2005

                Featured in the Art of the West Magazine, Oct/Sept 2000