“Great art is both timeless and of its moment. The twelve paintings by Victoria Crowe and the accompanying poems by Christine De Luca 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.”

“The paintings from the windows have a classic quality – they are the pictures of the time, as well as the most wonderfully judged and executed paintings of time passing. The picture with the smoke and the lighted window is so beautiful that people will find it very moving, and find ways that it touches their own experience. It is the true picture of time passing in this year when time has become so strange. The night sky over the village and the empty road leads the mind back to the classics of emptiness and evening loneliness like Hopper and Kawase Hasui, but it has been completely reinvented and made contemporary. And the real otherworldliness of Shadow over Snow – the coldness expressed in the very texture of the paint. This is the most wonderful group of paintings – it clearly builds on what’s gone before but it’s got a new quality, quite distinct and of itself.”