Artist in pastel, oil watercolour and teacher, born in Dunfermline, Fife. Cree studied at Edinburgh College of Art, 1946–52, his teachers including William Gillies, Robin Philipson, William MacTaggart and Leonard Rosoman. He won an Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship, 1950–1, and Travel Scholarship, 1951–2. Taught in state schools, from 1963–87 being principal teacher of art at Dunbar Grammar School. Showed with RSA, SSA, RSW and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. His solo shows included Lyceum Gallery, Edinburgh, 1957, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, 1968; and Macaulay Gallery, East Lothian, 1990. Cree said of his subjects that these were “mainly the landscape of lowland Scotland, but I am also interested in the people”. Scottish Arts Council, Nuffield Foundation and British Transport Hotels hold his work.