Art review: Victoria Crowe: Resonance of Time at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London W1

My latest review for Church Times is of Victoria Crowe: Resonance of Time at Flowers Gallery:

'These are images that sit in the borderlands between permanence and transience, capturing the still point of the turning world in moments of twilight, in which the setting sun still blazes in the reflecting waters of a still lake, or snow turns blue in the early light of the moon. The varying lights of twilight create the subtle and yet vibrant colours of these landscapes, and tree studies with their immersion in this liminal time of transition, which is both now and not yet ...

Crowe is widely known for her winter landscapes, which are often painted from recollections of walking at dusk. A low blaze of crimson on the horizon will often signal the transitory moments of twilight, in which she finds elements of dream and combines these with strong visual memories of place. The twilight within her works is also reflective of an inner life, indicating a transitional and contemplative state between beginnings and endings.'

For more on Victoria Crowe, see my Church Times review of her 2019 retrospective here.

Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. Those pieces for Artlyst are here and those for Art+Christianity are here. See also Modern religious art: airbrushed from art history?

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