Jean Dinsdale Young

'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 sailing the world with her husband and family and painting the landscape painting of first Vancouver Island and then 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 an eminent career in cartooning.

Jean's perception and illustration skills are second to none -her works are colourful and contain an extraordinary amount of detail depicting humorous and often ridiculous aspects of everyday life, especially in the more sheltered circles of the landed gentry! Her prints are widely sold at sports fairs up and down the country and  allegedly adorn some of the best loos in the land.

Never one to blow her own trumpet. Jean 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."
 

Indeed they are, and we have a wide variety of Jean's prints and cards at Tore Art Gallery, and the occasional original painting.