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Writing by Creffield
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Love Paintings and Related Drawings: 1970–1980
Dennis Creffield, 1980‘The mood is one of simple sensuality and ease...’
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Behold the Man
Dennis Creffield, 1982‘A meditation of that especial note of masculine sadness which I hear in Philip II's soliloquy in Act III of Verdi's Don Carlos...’
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English Cathedrals
Dennis Creffield, 1987‘A perception in which eye, mind, body and imagination are all one at the same time together...’
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Dennis Creffield, 1989‘There is only a little bit of dawn... It is an extraordinary play of darkness....’
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Impressions of Castles
Dennis Creffield, 2002‘I have been not only inspired by Tennyson and Turner and Maeterlinck but also medieval paintings...’
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Jerusalem
Dennis Creffield, 2011‘The problem is that Jerusalem is more than a city...’
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Writing on Creffield
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Towards a Theory of Expression
Peter Fuller, 1980‘When I saw Dennis Creffield’s paintings I knew at once that I had not often seen contemporary work of such quality...’
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Foreword to English Cathedrals
R.B. Kitaj, 1987‘Ingres would not have drawn like this but yes, Turner might have...’
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Review: English Cathedrals
Robert Snell, 1988‘The work of a supremely gifted artist...’
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Review: English Cathedrals
Peter Fuller, 1988‘Creffield has looked, seen, felt, and drawn with a revelatory clarity...’
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Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Norbert Lynton, 1989‘He is now one of the most powerful painters in the country...’
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Dungeon Masters
Dan Hofstadter, 1990‘It was the apartment of an old-fashioned bohemian who lived and breathed art...’
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Form and Fabric
Peter Ackroyd, 1993‘In Creffield's painting there is always the sense of the house and its land as organic, breathing forms...’
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Dennis Creffield at Petworth
William Packer, 1993‘A kind of expressionism, immediate in its response, atmospheric and suggestive in its effect...’
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Orford Ness and Dennis Creffield
Jeremy Musson, 1995‘Creffield knew the spirit of this island as it was now, better than anyone...’
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Dennis Creffield: Retrospective
Howard Jacobson, 2005‘Alive as if drawn...’
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Back to the Drawing Board
John Russell Taylor, 2005‘A mature, brilliantly individual artist...’
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‘England’s most closely guarded secret’
Andrew Lambirth, 2011‘Creffield has distilled an art of rare presence and power...’
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Now you see it, now you don’t
Martin Gayford, 2015‘His work became more light, airy, and — an unusual quality, especially in post-war figurative art — joyous...’
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Encounters: The Art of Dennis Creffield
Alexandra Harris, 2018‘His pictures work emphatically in the present tense. They seem to pulse and breathe...’
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Dennis Creffield., 1931–2018
Oliver Basciano, 2018‘An English radical in the vein of Blake and Turner...’
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Dennis Creffield – Abstraction and Spectral Architecture
Fraser McFarlane, 2020‘Creffield’s works continue to be provocative participants in a conversation that will continue long after we pass away...’
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Below is a wide selection of writings by Creffield and texts by major critics, novelists and fellow artists. The fullest account of Creffield’s career is the recent monograph by Richard Cork, Dennis Creffield: Art & Life (2022), published by Lund Humphries and available to purchase here.
