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Painter in oils and watercolours, the latter a favourite medium in recent years, began painting in 1938, whilst studying English Literature, Drama and Philosophy at Exeter University.  After wartime teaching she returned as a full-time student of painting to Chelsea College of Art and London University Department of Education.

Her one-man shows include:1965 Heffer Gallery, Cambridge

1974 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

1975 'Galleri Docent Duk' Stockholm, Sweden

1982 Retrospective exhibition, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery

1982 The Century Gallery, Henley-on-Thames

1990  'Gallery 90' , Stratford-upon-Avon

1991 Gallery on the Cam, Cambridge

1996 Christ's Hospital School, Horsham

1997 The Old Town Gallery, Hastings

2003    Gallery Sodermalm, Stockholm

Paintings have been bought into the Leicester Schools Collection, the Mather and Crowther Collection, the National Bank of Athens Collection and the Dartington Hall Collection, and have been sold from The Royal Academy and Royal Watercolour Society Bankside Gallery Summer shows in London, and The Royal West of England Academy.

Her works have been exhibited and sold periodically through Gallery 10 in London and the Patricia Carega Gallery, Georgetown, Washington DC.  She has an extensive collection of her paintings and drawings at her studio in Hastings in the UK.

In the late 1950s, '60s and '70s she had a substantial teaching and administrative commitment, first as Head of Department of Art History and Complementary Studies at Brighton College of Art, subsequently Brighton Polytechnic - (now Brighton University).  In 1961 she was appointed Principal of Hastings College of Art.  During this period she was deeply involved with new developments in Art Education for full-time students in Art and Design.

Publications during this time included contribution 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, plus various articles for the Times Educational Supplement.  She has also undertaken a special study of 'The Primitive Mask - Form and Function' with special attention to the range of African tribal masks.

Jean Creedy retired to paint full-time in 1981 and has since 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 for students of painting from her home studio and on location. 

Registered: 2010-01-10

Location: East Sussex

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