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Here are more quotes from an NKB exhibition page; the sources are not online, but could be followed up in a library and used to enhance the article. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 20:53, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
“Des Helmore, whose work should be seen more often, makes tight compositions of buildings, signs and parking spaces, dry, but, nevertheless, meditated into tense evocative images.” —T. J. McNamara: (extract), New Zealand Herald, 28 Apr, 2003
“He was at art school as long ago as the 1960s but paintings have appeared only rarely and a few at a time, yet they have been notable for their quality. Why this reticence? Why this isolation? Perhaps because it has taken a long time.. this show should do much to lift the public reputation of a mature artist hitherto admired mostly by other artists.” —T. J. McNamara: (extract), New Zealand Herald, 25 May, 2005
"Des Helmore is having one of his rare exhibitions.. he is an artist who cultivates enigma. He takes ordinary places, landscapes and buildings and combines them into paintings that are truly strange yet curiously familiar.” —TJ McNamara: (extract), NZ Herald, 10 Dec, 2011
'Dick Frizzell in his latest book 'Its all about the Image' sums it up with his account: “He (Helmore) crept up on all of us, after a gap of 30 or so years, figuring it out best, lost in science and the world of entomological analysis and recording. Honing the skills of observation and patient description.” Helmore’s new suite of works will delight both those familiar and unfamiliar with his work.' —Artbash: (extract), 2011
“Des Helmore is celebrated by entomologists as a master illustrator, but is not as well known as he should be for his contemporary paintings” —Warwick Brown: (extract), NZ House & Garden, March, 2017