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Crowley is an acute cultural observer, and this awareness seasons his art, at times providing its rationale.
Does Crowley paint from nature? The vases exist, but the vast majority of the flowers, with their wonderfully rococo stems, are invented. Moths and flies, indicated by scattered blips of white or black, fugitive smudges, tumble over the surfaces of the grisailles. They serve to indicate the scale: in relation to them, these flowers are huge, magnificent. Note the direction of the light: there are good complex reflections, while shadows spread and linger weightily. There could be something spectral about these paintings but they are reassuringly physical. Crowley likes making things.> full essay
Andrew Lambirth | 1998
