Biography
Scottish by birth, Crozier spent his formative years in Paris
and Dublin before settling in London. From the 1980s, when he set
up studios in Ireland and the UK, Crozier's painting of the
landscape has blossomed with an extraordinary radiance that takes
inspiration from eastern European as much as western art. His
still-lifes, which are invariably taken from a subject near to hand
in the home, use brilliant colour to engineer a powerful emotional
intensity.
Crozier paints 'objects or landscapes which excite or delight
after long familiarity'. Nowhere is this more evident than in his
vibrant and tautly composed landscapes of West Cork, where he
spends long periods of time. The paintings capture the essence and
look of the landscape in ways immediately recognisable to the
viewer. Crozier believes that when painting the Irish landscape he
must 'Tell the truth. Say it simply.'
Crozier has exhibited widely in the UK, Ireland and Continental
Europe. He has been awarded the Premio Lissone in Milan and the
Oireachtas Gold medal for Painting in Dublin. In 1991 the Crawford
Art Gallery, Cork and the Royal Hibernian Academy, of which he is
an honorary member, curated a retrospective of his work.
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