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Galleries: Victoria Crowe on painting her way back to normality


Spindly trees, luminescent skies, silhouettes, reflections and stars. This is the stuff of Victoria Crowe’s first series of new work at the Scottish Gallery following the major retrospective which was held in 2019 – the time before these times – over five months at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre.
The works are deeply evocative, thickly wooded, intensely human yet only faintly suggesting a human presence, from the warmth of lights in a cottage window in the deep blues of a night-time forest to the sudden reflected self-portrait in a garden view through a window.
Rather magically, too, next to these 12 works, hung sparsely in the gallery and accompanied by a display case of Crowe’s sketchbooks, are 12 evocative poems, each inspired by one of the paintings. ....

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