SS ROBIN MURAL ROYAL DOCKS
SS ROBIN MURAL
SECTION OF MURAL DESIGN, PENCIL ON PAPER.
SAM’S TRADITIONAL FISH AND CHIPS SHOP CHINGFORD.
TWO WALLS OF THE MURAL, ON THE LEFT A HOMAGE TO WINSLOW HOMER AND ON THE RIGHT A RENDITION OF A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO, BOTHS WALLS 2 X 4 METRES.
Collages 2013
Charmouth Beach 2021
Wanstead Flats 2021
Pinkie at Wolverstone Marina 2021
These sea paintings come out of the memories I have from sailing holidays over thirty years. My wife 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. The many hours spent standing at the helm looking upon calm waters and still skies as well as dramatically strong winds and choppy waves has been etched on my psyche. These paintings capture a moment that anyone who has sailed a small boat would recognise; often the navigation on a long trip will take the vessel close to a headland, as the journey nears its destination. 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.
A commission ‘Building the Olympic Park’ acrylic on canvas 2022
“…At ExCel London, He (Frank Creber) brought together the ‘Walking on Water’ exhibition, in partnership with Grand Designs Live. A one mile long art exhibition that captured the interplay between east London’s vibrant communities and the regeneration that is now defining them. Large artworks mostly in oil, capturing the public spaces in east London where education, housing, recreation, theatre, business, enterprise and the arts play together in a global dance.“
Palm Tree Pub, oil on linen 200 x 200 cm 2020
Regeneration of East London
As an artist with over thirty years experience of working with community groups in Bromley by Bow, I am equally committed to making works that explore a deeply urban affair between a new world created in the pursuit of progress and modernity and the community that it is setting out to serve. A community whose optimism is by no means universal because they have seen before that the developers’ bulldozers can just as easily destroy the inner-city infrastructure geared to serving local needs.
About
Frank Creber’s works are informed by many topographical cityscape drawings made on location in East London; figure drawings made from observation and memory feed into the narrative process that is part of an unfolding personal visual chronicle, about the new emerging East London, both physical and social.
Bromley by Bow
I have been working as an artist at Bromley by Bow Centre for thirty years, the insights I have gained from developing projects with the community informs all my work. https://www.bbbc.org.uk/
