Biography
Painter and draughtsman born in London in 1931. From 1948-51 he studied under David Bomberg at Borough Polytechnic and from 1957-61 at Slade School of Fine Art. He became a Gregory Fellow in Painting at University of Leeds, 1964-8 and winner of the Tonks Prize for Life Drawing and the Steer Medal for Landscape Painting. By then he had taken part in many mixed exhibitions, including John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool (1961) and with the London Group, of which he was elected a member in 1962.

Creffield had his first solo exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery in 1966, and many others followed, including Queen's Square Gallery, Leeds; Brighton Polytechnic Gallery; and Serpentine Gallery, London. In 1977 he won the Arts Council Major Award for Painting.

Creffield had an ambition to draw every cathedral and abbey church in England, and from this stemmed the South Bank touring exhibition of 1988-90 accompanied by an illustrated book 'English Cathedrals' (1987) with text written by Creffield. In 1992 a major exhibition of 'Paintings and Drawings of London, 1960-1990' was held at the Barbican Gallery, and 1993-5, Gillian Jason Gallery presented a touring exhibition of his 'Paintings of Petworth'.

Creffield is a powerful artist in the Bomberg Expressionistic tradition and his works are held in numerous public, private and corporate collections, including the Arts Council and Tate Gallery, London.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Leeds City Art Gallery - 1966
Drawings 1960-66, Queen's Square Gallery, Leeds - 1967
Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex - 1971
Morley Gallery, London - 1974
Drawings, Serpentine Gallery, London - 1980
Paintings, Air Gallery, London - 1980
English Cathedrals, South Bank Touring Exhibition - 1988-90
French Cathedrals, Albemarle Gallery, London - 1991
Paintings & Drawings of London 1960-90, Barbican Gallery, London - 1992
Paintings of Petworth, Gillian Jason Gallery, touring exhibition - 1993-95
Paintings & Drawings of Orford Ness, Connaught Brown, London - 1995
Dennis Creffield: A Retrospective, Flowers East, London - 2005

SELECTED MIXED EXHIBITIONS
Young Contemporaries - 1957-61 (awarded Arts Council Prize, 1960)
Four English Painters, Stockholm - 1952
Seven Figurative Painters, AIA Gallery, London - 1960
Six Young Painters, Arts Council Touring Exhibition - 1961
London Group Jubilee Exhibition 1914-64, Tate Gallery, London - 1964
International Exhibition of Drawing, Toronto - 1965
Survey 66 - Figurative Painting, Camden Arts Centre, London - 1966
Art Spectrum South, Arts Council Touring Exhibition - 1971
The Slade Centenary Exhibition 1871-1971, The Royal Academy, London - 1971
British Painting 1953-1978, The Royal Academy, London - 1978
Human Interest - 50 Years of British Art, Arts Council Touring Exhibition - 1985
Innocence & Experience, Arts Council Touring Exhibition - 1992-93
British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, The British Council and Israel Museum - 1992-93
Eastbourne & Hove Museum - 1993
The Art Of Drawing, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester - 1997
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East Gallery, London - 2001
Drawings, New Academy Gallery, London - 2004