Victoria Crowe

Victoria Crowe is a contemporary painter celebrated for her poetic, atmospheric works that blend portraiture, landscape and symbolism.

Victoria Crowe was born in Kingston-upon-Thames and studied at Kingston School of Art from 1961-65. She was awarded a three-year postgraduate place in the Painting School at the Royal College of Art, London from 1965-68, after which she was invited to teach at Edinburgh College of Art. She remained there as a part-time lecturer in the School of Drawing and Painting until 1998, while continuing to develop her career as a painter.

Victoria has exhibited widely in group and mixed shows and is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. In 2000, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery put on an exhibition of her work from the 1970’s and 80’s and in 2018 it held a major retrospective of her figurative works.

Victoria has been the recipient of many awards and bursaries and has had important portrait commissions both public and private throughout Britain, as well as in Denmark and the USA. Victoria was awarded an OBE for Services to Art in 2004. Her work with Artists for Nature has taken her to artistic conservation projects in Poland, Spain and India. From 2003-2007 she was a senior visiting scholar at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge.

The resulting work ‘Plant Memory’ was shown at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2007 which prompted the production of a hand-made artists book ‘Inflorescence’ was produced in a very limited edition of ten.

Her paintings have been the subject of many publications, reference books and catalogues including two monographs, ‘A Shepherd’s Life,’ in 2000 and ‘Painted Insights’, in 2001.

Victoria Crowe exhibited with Thackeray Gallery from 1979-2007. Her work is represented in Private and Public Collections worldwide.