Background
Cress was born in Poona, British Raj, but went to England with his parents in 1948, when he was ten.
Cress was born in Poona, British Raj, but went to England with his parents in 1948, when he was ten.
He was educated at the Birmingham College of Art in England, and migrated to Australia in 1962 as a "ten pound Pom", meaning that he only had to pay ten pound for his fare to Australia. He started his career painting figuratively, but became well known for his abstract work in the late 60s and 70s. In 1990 Cress bought a 17th-century stone farmhouse in Southern Burgundy, France.
Many of Cress"s later works have visual references to his time spent in France.
Cress was diagnosed with prostate cancer in January 2003. In 2009 he declined to continue with treatment while he worked on his last exhibition, entitled "End Game One", held in Australian Galleries, Paddington.
He died on 14 October 2009. Buratti Fine Art, Perth www.buratti.com.au
Australian Galleries, Sydney.