Dennis Creffield: Cathedrals of England and France

Brighton-based artist Dennis Creffield (b.1931) was once described by the American artist R.B. Kitaj as ‘one of England’s most closely guarded secrets’. Born in London, Creffield studied under David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic alongside Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, where he established his Expressionist style. Later Creffield went on to study at the Slade where he was a prize-winner, becoming in due course an effective teacher and a substantial artist in his own right. This exhibition brings together Creffield’s charcoal drawings of English medieval cathedrals that were commissioned in 1987 by the Arts Council, together with their French counterparts. It includes works from the Gallery’s collection donated by the architect Colin St John Wilson, together with loans from the artist.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000143?id=EVENT467094