Eleanor Crow’s Falling Light
Here are a selection of paintings from Eleanor Crow‘s new exhibition FALLING LIGHT which opens at Townhouse, 5 Fournier St, E1 6QE this Saturday 21st June and runs until 6th July.
Harry Thomas, Baker
‘Many of these paintings were made in kitchens, the heart of any house, café or restaurant. Places that are often a repository of things we have collected, things that have been handed down to us and which constitute an ongoing story. Once these spaces were hidden but nowadays we want to see what is happening.
Kitchens are like a theatre with the utensils as props, where skill, labour and love are employed in the alchemy of ingredients transmuted into food. Ongoing activity means that elements are constantly moved and the light changes while I am painting, so nothing is ever quite the same. I sought to paint these transient moments of light falling in a particular way, over particular things, in a particular place.’
– Eleanor Crow
Scottish kitchen
E Pellicci, Bethnal Green
An egg and an onion
Chelvey taps
Clerkenwell kitchen
Hungarian jug and yellow tomatoes
North London kitchen
Basket of limes
Dutch kitchen
Leeks and broad beans
Farmhouse kitchen
Market produce
Shelves in the paupers’ attic at Dennis Severs’ House
At the Eagle, Farringdon Rd
At William Hogarth’s House
Laundry in the stairwell at Dennis Severs’ House
Suffolk kitchen
Paintings copyright © Eleanor Crow
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I looked at the front pages online this morning, and then at these.
They’re so beautiful.
And (I feel) like the best of all kinds of experiences, more than an invitation to another realm, a reminder of another way of being.
(My favourites, so far, are the laundry and the Hungarian jug!)
Thank you for showing us these.
Eleanor Crow has captured an ethereal, transitory beauty in functional spaces and unremarkable objects. It’s domestic poetry! This changed the whole tenor of my morning.
Thank you!
These are stunning! I could happily hang all of them on my wall and it is difficult to have a favourite. However, the Basket of limes does it. Yes, genius!
The Scottish Kitchen wins for me, it’s lovely.
Oh, I hope it is not too late to add a comment about these magnificent paintings.
All I can say is…………”Oh, goodness, the GLISTEN.” I jumped in my chair at the addition of
glistening surfaces in these paintings. They are her signature (in my humble opinion).
Quite, quite, quite, lovely. I loved visiting these spaces — such fine descriptive paintings.
Another one of your fledglings TGA truly leaving the nest.
What a change of style from Eleanor, very much a reflection of her feelings, I sense.
Lovely
Your brother salutes your gentle understated genius. Oh that it ran in the family!