In 1959 Wynter had moved to a new London dealer, Victor Waddington with his first exhibition of 28 paintings in March of that year. Between 1959 – 1961 Wynter’s works were influenced in construction, palette and title by his interest in sea sports and exploration; aqualung diving, kayaking and open water swimming. Oceanic 1959, Kayak 1961 and our painting, River Daemon 1960 are examples.

Of the artist’s process, Michael Bird wrote (quite revealingly in the context of the present work): “Wynter approached a new painting with a comparable absence of plan or preconception, but his working practise was methodical rather than impulsively open-ended. He often began with a dense underpainting of black stokes. The next stage involved simplifying this complex all-over design, either with over-painting certain areas with household paint or applying a coloured glaze which might then suggest further possibilities. Subsequent layers of larger or smaller paint strokes (or ‘brushsigns’) were added, often with weeks or months between each stage.”

River Daemon has been exhibited in many public galleries internationally including the National Gallery of Canada (and across Canada's provincial capitals), Reykjavik’s National Museum of Iceland, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Zurich’s Galerie Charles Lienhard; and toured to Denmark, Belgrade, Skopje, Zagreb, Cairo, Alexandria and Gibraltar.

In 2024 Meeting Place by Bryan Wynter set a new world record price in a public auction for the artist, selling at USD 533,400 + taxes.