Anne Crowley

Full Moon and Stars, 38 x 34, oil on canvas

Day Out 9 x 12, oil on canvas

Ice Storm 2, 16 x 16, oil on canvas

Early Fall, 18 x 22, oil on canvas

Mountain Sunrise, 16 x 16, oil on canvas

October Catskill, 20 x 20 oil on paper on wood

Winter Walk, 20 x 20, oil on canvas

October Sunset no 3, 16 x 26 oil on canvas

Autumn Light, 22.5 x 30 oil on paper on wood panel

Evening Light, 24 x 24 oil on canvas

Delaware River, 32 x 32", oil on canvas

Late Autumn at Church Pond, 16 x 16", oil on canvas

Artist Statement

Anne Crowley was born in Dublin, Ireland. In 1981, she received a Bachelor of Fine Art's degree from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. After receiving her degree she moved to New York City and pursued a career as a painter. In 2001 the artist moved from Manhattan to rural upstate New York. The cottage had an old shed with a wood-burning stove making it an ideal studio space. Surrounded by woodland and nature Crowley soon began a series of paintings on the subject of the natural world, as she saw it. There was a pivotal moment that had a direct impact on her imagination. Listening to the radio a piece of music by Debussy, "Prelude to a Fawn", came on and just by coincidence, a deer happened to be grazing in the woods outside her window. This moment served as a catalyst for the deer painting series. To quote the Irish poet, Patrick Kavanagh,"... some strange thing had happened". The door was open to explore the rest of her backyard: birds, flowers, and insects. The artist's work attempts to articulate the energy and motion of these animals and plants, to give them traction in two-dimensional terms.