Dennis Creffield 1931-2018
One of the most powerful draughtsmen of the last seventy years, the paintings and drawings of Dennis Creffield combine a fidelity to the subject with immense improvisation to fuse empiricism with a profound spirituality.
Perhaps most famous for his epic drawings of the cathedrals of England and France, the human body has also been a long-standing preoccupation.Creffield's work is in numerous museum collections from Tate Britain to Los Angeles County Museum.James Hyman Gallery was honoured to represent Dennis Creffield for many years and especially proud to have commissioned and staged the marvellous Jersualem exhibiton in 2011. This was one of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions of Creffield's entire career. At the heart of the exhibition was an incredible iconostasis - an exraordinary series of portraits inspired by a life mask of William Blake - that is one of Creffield's greatest achievements.
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Special Charity Fundraiser for The Trussel Trust
7 - 30 Dec 2020The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of food banks to provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaigns for change to end the need for...Read more -
Special Fundraising Sale for the National Health Service
29 Mar - 29 May 2020Unfortunately, NHS Hospital staff, on the front line in the treatment of patients with Covid-19, are still working without the proper PPE (personal protective equipment), and there remains a shortage...Read more -
Dennis Creffield
Paintings of Innocence and Experience 18 Sep - 30 Oct 2015Dennis Creffield. Paintings of Innocence and Experience presents paintings spanning seven decades to trace the range of the artist's work from the 1940s, and his days in the classes of...Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2012
6 - 21 Dec 2012Artists whose work is presented include: Frank Auerbach Tony Bevan John Bratby Edward Burra Jake & Dinos Chapman Geoffrey Clarke Prunella Clough John Davies Eric Gill David Hockney Gary Hume...Read more -
Dennis Creffield. Jerusalem
7 Sep - 9 Oct 2011In the extensively illustrated publication that accompanies the exhibition, James Hyman explains the origins of these pictures: 'In May 2007, I paid a visit to Dennis Creffield's studio in Brighton...Read more -
A Tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson
21 Nov - 1 Dec 2007James Hyman is proud to present a personal tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson, one of Britain's greatest architects and art collectors of the last half-century. The exhibition follows...Read more -
Dennis Creffield. Body and Soul
2 Nov - 1 Dec 2007These drawings not only confirm Creffield's stature as one of the greatest draftsmen at work today but also capture the essence of what he does. Linking these two bodies of...Read more -
A Century of Drawing
Important modern British works on paper from the Camden Town School to Bridget Riley 2 Jul - 29 Aug 2003Read more
