JEAN CREEDY (born 1920)
“Brighton from the West
Pier”
Oil Painting on Board.
49.3 x 74.3cm. Signed and dated ‘61
Provenance: From the
collection of The Leicestershire Education Authority IMAGE
Jean Creedy is a painter in oils and
watercolour. She began painting in 1938
whilst she was studying English Literature, Drama and Philosophy at Exeter
University. During the war she worked as
a teacher after which she studied painting full-time at Chelsea College of Art
and London University Department of Education.
She has had many solo shows including Heffer Gallery, Cambridge;
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery; Galeri Docent Duk, Stockholm, Sweden; Worthing
Museum and Art Gallery; Gallery 90, Stratford-upon-Avon; Gallery on the Cam,
Cambridge; Christ’s Hospital School, Horsham; The Old Town Gallery, Hastings
and Gallery Sodermalm, Stockholm. Her
work has been purchased by the Leicester Schools Collection; the Mather and
Crowther Collection; the National Bank of Athens Collection and the Dartington
Hall Collection. She has exhibited and
sold from, the Royal Academy; the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal West
of England Academy. She has also
exhibited at Gallery 10 in London and the Patricia Carega Gallery, Georgetown,
Washington DC. In the late 1950s and
during the 1960s and 1970s she worked as a teacher and administrator, firstly
as Head of Department of Art, History and Complementary Studies at Brighton College
of Art and then as Principal of Hastings College of Art. She contributed to “The Social Context of
Art” published by Tavistock Press in 1970 and a chapter in “Beyond
Aesthetics” published by Thames and
Hudson in 1976. She also wrote several
articles for “The Times” Educational Supplement. She has also undertaken a special study of
“The Primitive Mask – Form and Function”. She retired to work as a full-time
artist in 1981 and since then has worked in the USA, Italy, France, Australia,
Greece, Spain, Ireland, Turkey, Madeira and Sweden. She still lectures on drawing and watercolour
techniques and runs short courses in painting.
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