Frank Creber

Joined Artfinder: Aug. 2020

Artworks for sale: 54

(4)

United Kingdom

Updates from Frank Creber's studio

  • Community Voices New to Sidney street.

    "Our project is to create a new mural at the heart of Whitechapel representing the rich heritage of our diverse neighbourhood. Our project team – led by John’s Place Tenants’ and Residents’ Association, working in partnership with Walk East and Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives – is leading a series of history workshops, guided walks, and research sessions to inform the content, design and style of the final mural. Once designed, the mural will be painted on Sidney Street, near Sidney Square and Clark Street, covering a flank wall and bringing colour and life to a previously blank canvas. A huge THANK YOU to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for enabling this project; we really appreciate your support." WhitechapelStories

    18 April 2025

    Family visual diary

    Bromley by Bow Centre - Comedy Club is the title of this commission that was made for a family that were central to the life of the Bromley by Bow Centre for 35 years. The painting contains many elements, people, Family visual diary and symbols that tell a personal visual chronicle of their life and work as part of the uplifting community life of Bromley by Bow Centre. "Our Family's Untold Stories, Through The Lens of a painting by Frank Creber."

    18 April 2025

    Making portraits on a large scale

    This example shows the method I used to make 25 portrait faces on the Whitechapel Heritage Mural 2025. My principles were not to use a projection, I believe painting and drawing techniques need to be a free of the restrictions of photography. A lot of contemporary painting has the feel of a photograph, and I think it detracts from the final artistic content. I used an adjustment method, that I innovated on the job, so to speak, and was happy with the results.

    18 April 2025

    Sailing Paintings

    A short video of sailing and paintings from my experiences.

    08 November 2024
    Drawings at Canary Wharf

    Drawings at Canary Wharf

    Part of a residency in 2014

    08 November 2024

    Sailing Paintings

    my exhibition of Sailing Paintings is open At The Viewing Room Thames-Side Studios Harrington Way, Warspite Rd,  London SE18 5NR 9 Nov – 20 Dec 2024 The Preview is Friday 8 November, 6-9pm. These sea paintings come out of the memories I have from sailing on and off for thirty years. My wife Margy and I sailed a boat from the east coast of the UK to Kusadasi in Turkey, a discontinuous trip made over a period of several years, we also made numerous trips around the UK coast and across to France and the Netherlands. The many hours spent standing at the helm looking at calm waters and still skies as well as dramatically strong winds and menacing waves has been etched on my psyche. A number of these paintings capture the last few hours of a sailing trip, when the navigation will take the vessel close to a headland, before turning towards a safe harbour. It is this situation of sailing round a headland, where the waves kick up, the wind changes direction, the current becomes confused, there maybe changes to the depth of the sea at these places, rocks to avoid that adds a feeling of danger. Other Painting are about the memories of being out of sight of land sailing overnight with gale force winds, leaving a harbour, or crossing the English Channel in dense fog with no radar. This series of paintings has also been inspired by the works of great sea painters, J.M.W. Turner, Winslow Homer, Andreas Achenbach and Willem van de Velde the Younger. Each painting is about a particular place:- The Cliffs at Tropea - Calabria, The Raz de Sein - Brittany, San Vito Lo Capo - Sicily, they are places that remind me of a particular event, a thunderstorm, the boat engine not starting, close encounters with large ships at night, a fore sail getting tangled whilst arriving in harbour or a fast sail with a good wind.

    08 November 2024
    Solo exhibition 2020

    Solo exhibition 2020

    A photo of me with my dogs and one of the works in my Solo show at Solo exhibition at Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Greenwich London UK.

    05 August 2020
    Solo exhibition at Thames-Side Studios Gallery

    Solo exhibition at Thames-Side Studios Gallery

    A photo of me with my dogs and one of the works in my Solo show at Solo exhibition at Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Greenwich London UK.

    05 August 2020
    Working in the Studio

    Working in the Studio

    Preparing for an exhibition, working on a series of 2 metre long Paintings.

    05 August 2020

    Painting a Face part 3

    The third part of this video where I am working on a face and using a wide variety of tones and colours to create a sense of volume and emotion.

    05 August 2020

    Painting a Face Part 2

    The second part of a video talking about warm and cool colours while painting a Face.

    05 August 2020

    Painting a Face

    In the studio, I am talking about the colours I am using to paint a face in the composition.

    05 August 2020