Another Time, Another Place

by Victoria Crowe (Artist), Christine De Luca (Poet)

‘Great art is both timeless and of its moment. The twelve paintings by Victoria Crowe and the accompanying poems by Christine De Luca in this book will resonate powerfully with our memories of isolation and confinement during lockdown. But through the intensity of their observation, their emotion and imagination, the artist and the poet remind us that we should never take the ordinary for granted and that there is mystery and wonder to be found even in our most familiar surroundings. Confidence mingles with fragility, joy with melancholy, in these words and images of extraordinary clarity and beauty.’
~ Sir John Leighton, Director-General,
The National Galleries of Scotland

80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2021

About the author

Victoria Elizabeth Crowe OBE, DHC, FRSE, MA (RCA) RSA, RSW (b. 1945) is an English artist known for her portrait and landscape paintings. She has works in several collections including the National Galleries of Scotland, the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Royal Scottish Academy.

Crow studied at Kingston School of Art from 1961-65 and at the Royal College of Art, London from 1965-1968. 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.

Her first one-person exhibition was in London and she has gone on to have over fifty solo shows. In 2018, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery held a retrospective exhbition of Crowe's portraits, Beyond Likeness. In 019, the Edinburgh City art centre honoured her career with a retrospective, 50 Years of Painting. In 2000, her exhibition, A Shepherd's Life was one of the National Galleries of Scotland's Millenium exhibitions.

Victoria Crowe is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours. 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.

Reviews

[Sandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first experienced the impact of Victoria Crowe's work in 1998 - an exhibition entitled 'Accomplished journeys' which consisted of haunting, semi Shakespearean tragedy figures, apparently gazing from Venetian balconies. This book, written at a time of convalescence and Covid, contains similarly haunting images of Crowe's West Linton garden in snow and semi darkness accompanied by the poetic response of Christine de Luca. All are impactful but perhaps the most, to me, is 'The amazing clarity of the night skies' - de Luca's words 'A night-soaked sky slips into lapis lazuli' a perfect response to a silhouetted skyline of winter trees.