Major Victoria Crowe exhibition opens in Edinburgh
(Artdaily.org)

Edinburgh’s City Art Centre hosts the first major study to showcase the esteemed career of one of the UK’s leading artists, Victoria Crowe. Embracing every aspect of Crowe’s practice, the exhibition features over 150 pieces, stemming from youthful student paintings which laid the foundation of her career to the assured landscapes and portraits of recent years. Drawing from 50 solo exhibitions, 50 Years of Painting traces the rise of this exceptional artist, from early beginnings in which we catch glimpses of riches to come, through the highs and lows of her personal and professional life played out on canvas and paper, to recent years, where the cold light of a winter’s day in the Scottish Borders or the heat of a Venetian sunset still echo Crowe’s appreciation of early Renaissance and North European Painting. The exhibition is displayed throughout the City Art Centre, spanning four gallery fl