Dennis Creffield
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Taught at first by David Bomberg, Creffield went to the Slade 1957-61, was a major prizewinner and exhibited widely.
On the recommendation of the eminent art theorist Herbert Read, he became Gregory Fellow in Painting at the University of Leeds from 1964-8 and subsequently had his first solo exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery in 1966.
Creffield is perhaps best known for the charcoal drawings of English cathedrals commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1985, a task he completed by travelling the country in a camper van for two years. He also undertook a major series of drawings of cathedrals in northern France.
This painting 'Still Life with Bread and Jug' was in Made at the Slade, mature works by ex-Slade students, Brighton Polytechnic Gallery, 1979. He was a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Brighton, 1968-81.
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