Multi Media Artists: Don Cranefield & Derrick Waller

27th November to 21st December 2007

Open evening 27th November 7-9pm

After only fifteen months at Art School Derrick Waller joined a commercial art studio as a junior, and so began the years of training required to achieve these hands-on skills (before the general and accepted use of computers).

On completing his national service Derrick worked for numerous companies as a designer and general artist and during this period he developed an extensive freelance practice. Apart from designing, many painting commissions were executed, including a 20ft x 4ft archway for Smiths Industries and a 13ft x 7ft backdrop for British Steel. Derrick is mainly a self-taught potter, but the skills he uses in decorating and carving are the product of years of experience gained as a commercial illustrator. Since his last exhibition here at Ripley Arts Centre Derrick has extended his oeuvre. In addition to his much-admired 'Precisionist' finishes, Derrick has produced works using a more painterly technique with commendable results! Don Cranefield

Don Cranefield is an artist working in both oil and water colour. Over the years he has developed an unusually varied genre, including not only still-life, land and seascapes, botanical and floral studies, animal and human portraiture but also popular panoramic compositions in pen and wash, pebble and floral paintings on wood and his unique Glo Graphics.

Don has exhibited regularly with Bromley Arts Society and Orpington Sketch Club and now living in Sussex he is specialising in local and village subjects. This delightful exhibition of good quality… yet affordable… art works is well worth a visit !