大象传媒

Edi Stark meets Victoria Crowe, one of Scotland鈥檚 leading artists whose stunningly beautiful work includes still life, landscape and portraiture.
She talks about being invited to teach at Edinburgh College of Art, on the strength of her graduate show at the Royal College of Art in London. She鈥檇 never been to Scotland before but living and working in the hamlet of Kittleyknowe was to prove an inspiration. As well as painting the pastoral landscape she also painted her neighbour, Jenny Armstrong, a shepherdess. She tells Edi about her other subjects like Psychiatrist RD Laing, Prince Charles and the poet Kathleen Raine ..and her beloved son Ben, who died of oral cancer at the age of 22. His portrait, Heroes and Villains is on the advertising poster for Victoria Crowe鈥檚 exhibition Beyond Likeness, currently at the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.