Victoria Crowe
OBE, DHC, FRSE, MA(RCA), RSA, RSW Born: 1945To view prints by Victora Crowe please click here.
Victoria Crowe studied at Kingston School of Art from 1961-65 and at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1965-68. At her postgraduate show, she was invited by Sir Robin Philipson to teach at Edinburgh College of Art. For thirty years she worked as a part-time lecturer in the School of Drawing and Painting while developing her own artistic practice. She lives and works in West Linton, Edinburgh, and Venice. Her first one-person exhibition, after leaving the Royal College of Art, was in London and she has subsequently gone on to have over fifty solo shows.
Victoria Crowe’s first solo exhibition at The Scottish Gallery was in 1970. In August 2018, we held a major exhibition of paintings at The Scottish Gallery. This coincided with The Scottish National Portrait Gallery's retrospective of Victoria Crowe’s portraits.
In 2019 The City Art Centre held a retrospective entitled 50 Years of Painting. This exhibitions embraces every aspect of Crowe’s practice and features over 150 pieces. The Gallery hosted a complementary exhibition in September 2019 called 50 Years: Drawing & Thinking which focussed on her studio life.
Victoria Crowe is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW). She has exhibited nationally and internationally and undertaken many important portrait commissions, including RD Laing, Peter Higgs and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. She has received many bursaries and research awards and her work is held in numerous public and private collections worldwide.
In 2000, her exhibition A Shepherd’s Life, consisting of work selected from the 1970s and 80s, was one of the National Galleries of Scotland’s Millennium exhibitions. It received great critical acclaim. The exhibition toured Scotland and was re-gathered in 2009 for a three-month exhibition at the Fleming Collection, London.
Victoria was awarded an OBE for Services to Art in 2004 and from 2004-2007, she was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge. The resulting work, Plant Memory, was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2007 and subsequently toured Scotland. In 2009 she received an Honorary Degree from The University of Aberdeen and in 2010 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 2013, Dovecot Studios wove a large-scale tapestry of Victoria’s painting Large Tree Group. This collaborative tapestry was acquired for the National Museums Scotland. In 2015, Victoria was an invited artist at Dumfries House and in 2016 a group of work by the artist was acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland. Victoria was commissioned by the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers’ in 2014, to design a forty-metre tapestry for their new hall in the city of London, which took over three years to weave and was installed in January 2017. Dovecot worked Victoria Crowe to produce a new tapestry inspired by a detail from her painting Twilight, Venice, 2014. The new tapestry, Richer Twilight, Venice was completed and unveiled at the end of September 2019. For more information please contact The Gallery.
Click the following links to view and purchase publications about this artist:
Victoria Crowe (Duncan Macmillan)
A Certain Light Exhibition Catalogue
50 Years: Drawing & Thinking Catalogue
Another Time, Another Place
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Mind's Eye View details
Victoria Crowe
Mind's Eye
c.2005oil on linenH:76cm W:76cm£11,750Guardians of the Real World View detailsVictoria Crowe
Guardians of the Real World
2003oil & mixed media on linenH:76.5cm W:102cm£14,500Burning Man Near Paradise View detailsVictoria Crowe
Burning Man Near Paradise
2012mixed media on paperH:17.5cm W:25cmReservedLight Across Fields, San Gimignano View detailsVictoria Crowe
Light Across Fields, San Gimignano
1992watercolourH:25cm W:34cm£2,850Winter Caveat View detailsVictoria Crowe
Winter Caveat
2010 - 2011oil on linenH:127cm W:127cm£25,000Sunset Tree View detailsVictoria Crowe
Sunset Tree
c.2008oil on monoprint with mixed mediaH:40cm W:20cm£2,250Sky, Clouds, Sea, Strelizia View detailsVictoria Crowe
Sky, Clouds, Sea, Strelizia
1997oil on linenH:64cm W:44cm£10,250Drawing Dogs in Venice View detailsVictoria Crowe
Drawing Dogs in Venice
mixed media with intaglioH:18.5cm W:25cm£1,350Richer Twilight, Venice View details-
Snow Blown Garden View details
Victoria Crowe
Snow Blown Garden
c.1985oil on canvasH:98cm W:112cmSoldDusk with Single Star View detailsVictoria Crowe
Dusk with Single Star
oil and ink on cotton boardH:19cm W:26cmSoldMorning, Frost Light View detailsVictoria Crowe
Morning, Frost Light
pastel and watercolour on pumice primed paperH:20.5cm W:27.5cmSoldScots Pine, Hillside View detailsVictoria Crowe
Scots Pine, Hillside
ink and wash on pumice primed paperH:40.5cm W:40.5cmSoldTrees at Dusk View detailsVictoria Crowe
Trees at Dusk
ink and washH:35.5cm W:60.5cmSoldSilver Margin View detailsVictoria Crowe
Silver Margin
oil on boardH:25cm W:30cmSoldGarden Full of Snow View detailsVictoria Crowe
Garden Full of Snow
oil and pencil on boardH:108cm W:130cmSoldShadow Flying Over Snow View detailsVictoria Crowe
Shadow Flying Over Snow
oil on linenH:102cm W:76.5cmSoldFrost Light View detailsVictoria Crowe
Frost Light
oil on linenH:91.5cm W:91.5cmSoldLong View View detailsVictoria Crowe
Long View
mixed media on museum boardH:39cm W:107cmSoldLuminous Tree View detailsVictoria Crowe
Luminous Tree
oil on canvasH:70cm W:100.5cmSoldOn the Cusp View detailsVictoria Crowe
On the Cusp
oil on linenH:91.5cm W:122cmSoldThe Amazing Clarity of the Night Skies View detailsVictoria Crowe
The Amazing Clarity of the Night Skies
oil on linenH:130cm W:110cmSoldNovember Stillness: A Puff of Smoke View detailsVictoria Crowe
November Stillness: A Puff of Smoke
oil on linenH:71cm W:91.5cmSoldConflagration View detailsVictoria Crowe
Conflagration
oil on canvasH:30.5cm W:40.5cmSoldCoral Bark Maple and Moon View detailsVictoria Crowe
Coral Bark Maple and Moon
oil on boardH:61cm W:45.5cmSoldLight and Reflection from Within View detailsVictoria Crowe
Light and Reflection from Within
oil on linenH:100cm W:130cmSoldFrom Dusk to Wakening View detailsVictoria Crowe
From Dusk to Wakening
2014oil on linenH:127cm W:127cmSoldWall Fragment View detailsVictoria Crowe
Wall Fragment
c.1995mixed mediaH:25cm W:34cmSoldVenice Streets, Sottoportego View detailsVictoria Crowe
Venice Streets, Sottoportego
2010mixed mediaH:23cm W:30cmSoldVenetian Wall Graffiti with Raphael View detailsVictoria Crowe
Venetian Wall Graffiti with Raphael
2008mixed mediaH:30.5cm W:30.5cmSoldTrade Routes and Messages View detailsVictoria Crowe
Trade Routes and Messages
2010mixed mediaH:67cm W:81cmSoldMirror View II View detailsVictoria Crowe
Mirror View II
c.2010collageH:21.5cm W:36cmSoldIris Sequence II View detailsVictoria Crowe
Iris Sequence II
2008oil on boardH:20.2cm W:43cmSoldArtichoke and Silver Fishes View detailsVictoria Crowe
Artichoke and Silver Fishes
2010oil on boardH:30cm W:21.5cmSoldLandscape, Mirror Reflection View detailsVictoria Crowe
Landscape, Mirror Reflection
2019mixed mediaH:140cm W:100cmSoldFigure Group View detailsVictoria Crowe
Figure Group
1962 - 63oil and pencil on paperH:15cm W:17.5cmSoldLife Room, Kingston School of Art View detailsVictoria Crowe
Life Room, Kingston School of Art
1962 - 63oil on paperH:30cm W:19cmSoldFresco Landscape (Pentlands) View detailsVictoria Crowe
Fresco Landscape (Pentlands)
1969 - 70mixed media on paperH:34cm W:22.5cmSoldFigure Composition of Stage Set View detailsVictoria Crowe
Figure Composition of Stage Set
1970 - 1971mixed media on paperH:19cm W:26.5cmSoldStudy for Beech Tree View detailsVictoria Crowe
Study for Beech Tree
1970mixed media on paperH:19cm W:20.5cmSoldSheds, Fences, Kittleyknowe View detailsVictoria Crowe
Sheds, Fences, Kittleyknowe
1970 - 72mixed media on paperH:12.5cm W:13.5cmSoldSunlit Figure and Fences View detailsVictoria Crowe
Sunlit Figure and Fences
1976ink and watercolour on Japanese paperH:38cm W:27cmSoldCottage with Bonfire View detailsVictoria Crowe
Cottage with Bonfire
c.1975oil on canvasH:46cm W:51cmSoldInterior of Jenny's Cottage View detailsVictoria Crowe
Interior of Jenny's Cottage
1981mixed media on paperH:25.5cm W:35cmSoldStudy for December 25th View detailsVictoria Crowe
Study for December 25th
1980 - 1981watercolourH:23cm W:28cmSoldBack Garden, Kittleyknowe View detailsVictoria Crowe
Back Garden, Kittleyknowe
1984pencil and pastel on paperH:29.5cm W:20.5cmSoldLambing Studies II View detailsVictoria Crowe
Lambing Studies II
c.1985pencil and watercolour on paperH:21cm W:29cmSoldLambing Studies I View detailsVictoria Crowe
Lambing Studies I
c.1985pencil and watercolour on paperH:21cm W:29cmSoldFlowers in a Foggy Window (Monksview Cottage) View detailsVictoria Crowe
Flowers in a Foggy Window (Monksview Cottage)
c.1977mixed mediaH:34.5cm W:28cmSoldEilean Iarmain View detailsVictoria Crowe
Eilean Iarmain
early 1990swatercolourH:17.5cm W:47cmSoldFirst Day, Siena View detailsVictoria Crowe
First Day, Siena
1992watercolourH:25cm W:34cmSoldMocenigo Mirror, Lost Empire View detailsVictoria Crowe
Mocenigo Mirror, Lost Empire
2004pencil and mixed mediaH:28.5cm W:21cmSoldVigil in Siena View detailsVictoria Crowe
Vigil in Siena
1995oil on boardH:75cm W:90cmSoldSilvered Reflection, Venetian Mirror View detailsVictoria Crowe
Silvered Reflection, Venetian Mirror
1997silver leaf and collageH:30.5cm W:24.5cmSoldFossil Plant Studies - Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge View detailsVictoria Crowe
Fossil Plant Studies - Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge
2006mixed media on open sketchbookH:30cm W:81cmSoldFossil Plants View detailsVictoria Crowe
Fossil Plants
2012intaglio and etching, unique printH:24cm W:33cmSoldGreen Quinces (Painted in Venice) View detailsVictoria Crowe
Green Quinces (Painted in Venice)
2017acrylicH:30cm W:37cmSoldAgapanthus and Tree View View detailsVictoria Crowe
Agapanthus and Tree View
c.2012acrylic and pencil on paperH:45cm W:20cmSoldNight Flight View detailsVictoria Crowe
Night Flight
1999mixed mediaH:18.5cm W:19cmSoldDragonfly Drawing View detailsVictoria Crowe
Dragonfly Drawing
c.1998mixed mediaH:21cm W:29.5cmSoldWinter Plant View detailsVictoria Crowe
Winter Plant
2013mixed media on silkscreen printH:37.5cm W:45.5cmSoldDogs, La Giudecca View detailsVictoria Crowe
Dogs, La Giudecca
2016mixed media on handmade paperH:17.5cm W:25cmSoldItalian Landscape with White Clematis View detailsVictoria Crowe
Italian Landscape with White Clematis
2010oil on boardH:34.5cm W:80cmSoldMonreale, Sicily Travelling from Monreale View detailsVictoria Crowe
Monreale, Sicily Travelling from Monreale
2015mixed media and gold leafH:8cm W:12cmSoldMountain Landscape, Sicily, Evening View detailsVictoria Crowe
Mountain Landscape, Sicily, Evening
2015watercolourH:10.5cm W:16.5cmSoldMountain Landscape, Sicily View detailsVictoria Crowe
Mountain Landscape, Sicily
2015watercolourH:10.5cm W:16.5cmSoldFragment of Venice View detailsVictoria Crowe
Fragment of Venice
2014mixed mediaH:22.5cm W:29.5cmSoldVenetian Facade View detailsVictoria Crowe
Venetian Facade
2014mixed media on paperH:44.5cm W:23.5cmSoldVenice Sky View detailsVictoria Crowe
Venice Sky
2017mixed media on paperH:32.5cm W:32.5cmSoldBuilding, Petra View detailsVictoria Crowe
Building, Petra
2013ink and desert sandH:18.5cm W:33cmSoldCentral Park from the Guggenheim View detailsVictoria Crowe
Central Park from the Guggenheim
2015pencil and watercolourH:17.5cm W:25cmSoldTrees against Light View detailsVictoria Crowe
Trees against Light
2016mixed media on handmade paperH:12cm W:39cmSoldStudy for Opening Out View detailsVictoria Crowe
Study for Opening Out
2016pencil and watercolourH:34.5cm W:33.5cmSoldTwilight Drawing, Dumfries House View detailsVictoria Crowe
Twilight Drawing, Dumfries House
2018mixed mediaH:35.5cm W:71cmSoldDouble Landscape, Moonlight and Twilight View detailsVictoria Crowe
Double Landscape, Moonlight and Twilight
2016oil and screenprintH:21cm W:30cm D:eachcmSoldItalian Offerings View detailsVictoria Crowe
Italian Offerings
lithograph, variable edition viii/ixH:57cm W:70.5cmSoldWhite Nights of a Northern Summer View detailsVictoria Crowe
White Nights of a Northern Summer
oil on linenH:81cm W:76cmSoldSunset Pine, Saint Remy View detailsVictoria Crowe
Sunset Pine, Saint Remy
c.2014mixed media on paperH:32cm W:44.5cmSoldGateway View detailsVictoria Crowe
Gateway
1976oil on boardH:24cm W:29cmSoldCow Still Life II View detailsVictoria Crowe
Cow Still Life II
1973oil on boardH:18cm W:20.25cmSoldMessages View detailsVictoria Crowe
Messages
1986-87oil on boardH:122cm W:72.5cmSoldChicken Hut I View detailsVictoria Crowe
Chicken Hut I
1973oil on boardH:16.5cm W:20.5cmSoldIllumine, Coral Bark Maple View detailsVictoria Crowe
Illumine, Coral Bark Maple
2019oil on linenH:91cm W:91cmSoldLes Alpilles, Saint Remy View detailsVictoria Crowe
Les Alpilles, Saint Remy
c.2014mixed mediaH:19cm W:53cmSoldPainted Wall with Gilded Head View detailsVictoria Crowe
Painted Wall with Gilded Head
c. 2009watercolour & mixed mediaH:18cm W:14cmSoldBorder Hills in Snow View detailsVictoria Crowe
Border Hills in Snow
2018oil and mixed mediaH:53cm W:71cmSoldTwilight and Thaw View detailsVictoria Crowe
Twilight and Thaw
mixed media on Japanese paperH:29cm W:34cmSoldHut on the Water, Pellestrina View detailsVictoria Crowe
Hut on the Water, Pellestrina
mixed media on paperH:16cm W:24cmSoldEarly Morning, Low Tide, Pellestrina View detailsVictoria Crowe
Early Morning, Low Tide, Pellestrina
mixed media on paperH:21.5cm W:34cmSoldDramatic Sky View detailsVictoria Crowe
Dramatic Sky
pastel on paperH:14cm W:22cmSoldCrocosmia, Summer Light III View detailsVictoria Crowe
Crocosmia, Summer Light III
mixed mediaH:16.5cm W:21.5cmSoldBora at Molino Stucky View detailsVictoria Crowe
Bora at Molino Stucky
mixed mediaH:12.5cm W:11cmSoldBora with Aqua Alta View detailsVictoria Crowe
Bora with Aqua Alta
mixed mediaH:12.5cm W:11cmSoldEarly Mist, Giudecca Canal View detailsVictoria Crowe
Early Mist, Giudecca Canal
mixed mediaH:11.5cm W:26cmSoldFondamenta Before a Storm View detailsVictoria Crowe
Fondamenta Before a Storm
mixed mediaH:14cm W:19cmSoldZattere Skyline View detailsVictoria Crowe
Zattere Skyline
mixed mediaH:20cm W:26cmSoldZattere Silhouetted View detailsVictoria Crowe
Zattere Silhouetted
ink and washH:15cm W:23cmSoldBetween Two Windows View detailsVictoria Crowe
Between Two Windows
oil on linenH:91cm W:101.5cmSoldAgapanthus, Changing Light View detailsVictoria Crowe
Agapanthus, Changing Light
oil on boardH:49.5cm W:56cmSoldReflected, Silhouetted View detailsVictoria Crowe
Reflected, Silhouetted
H:56cm W:76cmSoldLate Evening, July View detailsVictoria Crowe
Late Evening, July
ink, wash, gold leaf & acrylicH:98cm W:60.5cmSoldOpening Out View detailsVictoria Crowe
Opening Out
oil on linenH:81cm W:96.5cmSoldWinter Evening View detailsVictoria Crowe
Winter Evening
mixed mediaH:20cm W:28cmSoldLight on the Hills View detailsVictoria Crowe
Light on the Hills
mixed mediaH:28cm W:31.5cmSoldPale Light, February Afternoon View detailsVictoria Crowe
Pale Light, February Afternoon
ink & wash on pumice primed paperH:49.5cm W:41cmSoldBranch on Branch, Snow on Snow View detailsVictoria Crowe
Branch on Branch, Snow on Snow
oil and mixed mediaH:56cm W:84.5cmSoldHow the Snow Fell View detailsVictoria Crowe
How the Snow Fell
oil on linenH:91.5cm W:101.5cmSoldEvening Poem View detailsVictoria Crowe
Evening Poem
oil on boardH:35.5cm W:25cmSoldLight Spill, Morning View detailsVictoria Crowe
Light Spill, Morning
oil on linenH:61cm W:56cmSoldDeeper Richness View detailsVictoria Crowe
Deeper Richness
oil on linenH:91.5cm W:102cmSoldLandscape with Hidden Moon View detailsVictoria Crowe
Landscape with Hidden Moon
oil on linenH:127cm W:127cmSoldVenetian Mirror with Remembered Landscape View detailsVictoria Crowe
Venetian Mirror with Remembered Landscape
oil on linenH:101.5cm W:127cmSoldThroughout A Single Day View detailsVictoria Crowe
Throughout A Single Day
oil on linenH:101.5cm W:127cmSoldReclining Nude View detailsVictoria Crowe
Reclining Nude
1977H:33cm W:48cmSoldVertiginous Landscape View detailsVictoria Crowe
Vertiginous Landscape
1997oil on linenH:90cm W:100cmSoldThe Existence of Dreaming View detailsVictoria Crowe
The Existence of Dreaming
c.1997watercolour with acrylicH:45.5cm W:77cmSoldEnchantment View detailsVictoria Crowe
Enchantment
c.1996oil on canvasH:101.6cm W:91.4cmSoldMidnight Hypnotic View detailsVictoria Crowe
Midnight Hypnotic
c.1996oil on boardH:59cm W:49.5cmSoldNuminous Tree View detailsVictoria Crowe
Numinous Tree
2010Oil on panelH:71cm W:76cmSoldWatching the Light, Short Day, February View detailsVictoria Crowe
Watching the Light, Short Day, February
2015mixed media on pumice primed paperH:49.5cm W:22.5cmSoldThe Moving Finger View detailsVictoria Crowe
The Moving Finger
mixed media & intaglio - unframedH:18.5cm W:25cmSoldArtichokes View detailsVictoria Crowe
Artichokes
2012watercolourH:16cm W:29.5cmSoldSt Catherine in a Box - Cini Foundation View details