Resonance of Time
Flowers Gallery, London, 8 April – 21 May 2022
The exhibition Resonance of Time at Flowers Gallery, London, continues Crowe's long-running investigation into the metaphysical landscape, and our relationship to nature, real and transmuted.
Crowe is widely known for her winter landscapes in which observations of everyday experience are transformed into the strikingly unfamiliar through symbolic associations with dream and memory. Often painted from recollections of walking at dusk, she captures the fleeting moments in which the natural world appears abstracted, from the luminous silhouettes of winter trees to the quietude of softened hillside landscapes blanketed by snow.
Through their subtle attention to surface, Crowe's paintings mark a journey of discovery, revealing an abiding interest in the patina of age, and the visceral evidence of wear and tear. Her process of layering and scraping back to uncover glimpses of underpainting reveals a sensitivity to the progress of time, pointing towards contrasting elements of fragility and permanence.