About the artist, Creswell

'Creswell' is the nom de plume under which Jean Dinsdale-Young signs and sells her cartoons. She trained in illustration at Liverpool School of Art and the Wimbledon School of Art in the 1950's, and this included plenty of life drawing. She subsequently spent many years landscape painting on Vancouver Island and in the Scottish Highlands.

Then in the 1980's, she entered and won a national cartoon competition run by the Scottish Field; and this sparked off a career in cartooning.

Her works are colourful and contain an extraordinary amount of detail depicting humorous and often ridiculous aspects of life. Her pictures are widely sold at craft fairs up and down the country and adorn some of the best loos in the land.

In the Introduction to her book 'Creswell' she writes...

"In my experience cartoons are rather low in the pecking order if Art. Top place must go to pickled sharks and unmade beds. Graffitti at the bottom perhaps, although even that is on the rise. The Old Masters sit somewhere in between. But cartoons, NO! Vulgar, nasty and sometimes -ha -ha -HA! funny."


Menu Home Creswell Gallery Prints Books & Postcards Ordering	About the artist, Creswell 'Creswell' is the nom de plume under which Jean Dinsdale-Young signs and sells her cartoons. She trained in illustration at Liverpool School of Art and the Wimbledon School of Art in the 1950's, and this included plenty of life drawing. She subsequently spent many years landscape painting on Vancouver Island and in the Scottish Highlands. Then in the 1980's, she entered and won a national cartoon competition run by the Scottish Field; and this sparked off a career in cartooning. Her works are colourful and contain an extraordinary amount of detail depicting humorous and often ridiculous aspects of life. Her pictures are widely sold at craft fairs up and down the country and adorn some of the best loos in the land. In the Introduction to her book 'Creswell' she writes... "In my experience cartoons are rather low in the pecking order if Art. Top place must go to pickled sharks and unmade beds. Graffitti at the bottom perhaps, although even that is on the rise. The Old Masters sit somewhere in between. But cartoons, NO! Vulgar, nasty and sometimes -ha -ha -HA! funny."
e-mail: creswellcartoons@homecall.co.uk