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Dennis Creffield, Salisbury Cathedral West End, 1988, oil on canvas
Exhibition
Spirit in the Mass. Dennis Creffield’s Drawings of Salisbury Cathedral
20 Apr 2022 – 11 May 2022
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 16:00
Free admission
Address
- Roche Court
- East Winterslow
- Salisbury
- SP5 1BG
- United Kingdom
To celebrate the publication of the full-length monograph by Richard Cork on the highly-regarded British painter and draftsman, Dennis Creffield, the New Art Centre is delighted to present a group of six large and dynamic charcoal drawings by the artist of Salisbury Cathedral.
About
In 1987 Creffield set out to draw all the Gothic cathedrals of England – 26 in total. As the artist recalled:
‘No artist has ever before drawn all the English medieval cathedrals – not even Turner. I’ve dreamed of doing so since I was 17 when as a student of David Bomberg I drew and painted in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. This dream finally came true – forty years later – in 1987 when Michael Harrison [of the Arts Council, later esteemed Director of Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge], having seen some drawings of mine of Wells Cathedral which the Arts Council had bought, asked me if I would be interested in drawing all of the cathedrals for an exhibition to tour the regions’
The resulting works were shown in an Arts Council exhibition that toured Britain between 1988 and 1990. And whilst a selection of Salisbury images were included in that show, our exhibition is the first time that this entire group of drawings have been exhibited together since they were created.
