The Life and Artistic Journey of Dennis Creffield
Dennis Creffield was a British artist whose work is held in major collections worldwide, including the Tate Gallery , The British Museum , and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . Born in London, he studied at the Borough Polytechnic under David Bomberg from 1948 to 1951, exhibiting as a member of the Borough Group. He later attended the Slade School of Art, where he received the Tonks Prize for Life Drawing and the Steer Medal for Landscape Painting .
Creffield held several academic positions, including serving as the Gregory Fellow in Art at the University of Leeds from 1964 to 1966. He taught at various institutions such as the University of Brighton, the University for the Creative Arts, and the Cyprus College of Art.
Major Works and Commissions
In 1985, Creffield was commissioned by the Arts Council to draw every cathedral in England, a project completed while living in a camper van for two years. This resulted in the exhibition English Cathedrals at the Hayward Gallery , London. His drawings of English cathedrals, including views of Canterbury Cathedral and Peterborough: Approaching the West Front , were acquired by the Tate Gallery in 1990.
His commissioned series also included the cathedrals of northern France. Other notable exhibitions included:
The Jerusalem exhibition at James Hyman Gallery in 2011, inspired by William Blake 's poem.
A major retrospective at Flowers Gallery, London, in 2005.
Participation in the Drawn from the Collection, 400 Years of British Drawing exhibition at Tate Britain in 2008.
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Ažurirano dana 28. септембар 2026.
