Dennis Creffield

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British artist, born in London in 1931, Dennis Creffield is known for his expressive paintings and drawings, which are included in several major British public collections, including those of Leeds City Art Gallery, the University of Leeds Art Gallery, the Arts Council of England and the Tate Gallery.

Dennis Creffield studied with David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic, London from 1948-51 and then at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1957-61 where he won the Tonks Prize for Life Drawing and the Steer Medal for Landscape Painting.

In 1961 he was a prizewinner in the John Moores Prize Exhibition, Liverpool, and in 1977 he won a major Arts Council of Great Britain Award for Painting. From 1964-68 he was Gregory Fellow in Painting at the University of Leeds.

In 1987 Creffield was commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain to draw all twenty-six mediaeval cathedrals which were exhibited at the Albemarle Gallery in 1991, and are now owned by the Tate Gallery, London. An exhibition of his work entitled Paintings and Drawings of London 1960-90 was held at the Barbican Gallery in 1992, and he was included in the exhibition 400 Years of British Drawing at Tate Britain, London in 2008.

Creffield lives in Brighton and, although he has now retired from teaching, he previously taught at many art colleges and universities in Britain and abroad, most notably the Leeds Metropolitan University, the University of Brighton, Canterbury College of Art and Cyprus College of Art.