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Multimedia:
Derrick Waller and Don Cranefield

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 (see image) 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.

Don Cranefield is a local artist working in both oil and water-colour. While painting still-life, land and sea-scapes, botanical and floral studies, he also accepts commissions for animal and human portraits in oils.

Don has developed Glo-Graphics as a unique abstract expression of form and colour, the results of this technique provides both depth and a luminous appearance, bearing contemporary connections to the historic effect of chiaroscuro.

Having painted all his life for pleasure, in recent years Don has exhibited regularly with Bromley Arts Society and Orpington Sketch Club.