Biography
Painter, designer and illustrator born in Glasgow. He began painting at the age of 14, left school at 16 to paint, but was too young to enter the local School of Art, although he attended life classes there.

In 1940 he held a joint exhibition with Douglas Campbell at a trade union club, where Josef Herman and Jankel Adler gave encouragement - Creme subsequently went on to study with Adler for several years. In 1942 Creme and Robert Frame illustrated W S Graham's poem's Cage Without Grievance.

Creme moved to London in 1946, where he met John Minton, Prunella Clough and Keith Vaughan. In the mid-1940's Tyrone Guthrie commissioned Creme to do the sets for his production of Carmen. It was at this time that Creme started to exhibit widely with AIA, London Group, Gimpel Fils, Redfern gallery and Leger Galleries.

A visit to southern France in 1950 prompted Creme to adopt a lighter palette and to move more towards abstraction. He had a one-man show at Gallery Apollinaire in 1952 and began to exhibit in America. Other solo shows include St. George's Gallery, 1955; Bryant M Hale Gallery, Los Angeles, 1964; and Dartington New Gallery, 1977.

Jane England organised a major retrospective in 1985 and continued to exhibit him thereafter. In additon to his painting he has been a long time lecturer and advocate of the mission of Maitreya the Christ.

Victoria & Albert Museum and British Museum amongst others hold examples of his work.