Anne Crowley

Bathers, 12 x 12, oil on wooden panel

Hunters Moon, 30 x 30, oil on canvas

church pond sunset 20x18, oil on canvas

Garden Shed, 20 x 18, oil on canvas

Kids, 9x11, oil on wood

forest, 30xx20, oil on canvas

Mirroring, 34x38, oil on canvas

Small World, 14 x 11, oil wood on panel

Wonderland, 16 x 16 oil on canvas

canopy, 30x20, oil on canvas

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

Winter Walk, 20 x 20, 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

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

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 she moved to New York City and received an MFA at Hunter College, she pursued a career as a painter. In 2001 the artist moved from Manhattan to rural upstate New York where a cottage has an old shed with a wood-burning stove and 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. Meanwhile Crowley has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, in New Jersey, Woodstock and Kingston, NY and has shown with us at the Lodge at Woodloch Gallery numerous times, most lately 2023. In 2026 she was selected to show at the First Street Gallery in Chelsea, NYC.

“I came to the Hudson Valley in 1998 and settled in a rural community near the Ashokan Reservoir, in the Catskill Mountains, New York State. The reservoir was what drew me in, reflecting light and the openness of the view. Driving over the reservoir, coming out of the dense tree canopy a completely open vista of water, sky and mountains appeared. Since then my work has evolved in a painterly language describing the trifecta of light, atmosphere and land. I have discovered that for me the mountains can me weightless as they hover between sky and water. I have painted the Ashokan Reservoir in its many moods over the years. In 2025 I found myself having the courage to follow my instincts and take the work in new directions. I discovered that my loved ones were present, their spirit and energy woven into the landscape. The current phase of work led to a more internal interpretation of nature. Coming to grips with the power of the mountains involved moving past the “scenery” and into the “spirit” of the place.

The Twinning Series: In the last year a shift in my perception transformed my practice, leading me to explore concepts of duality and doubling. I lost my twin sister, Ellen, when we were nineteen. After years of walking along the reservoir I began to see her reflected in rhythms of the natural world. On a clear day this idea came to me that the reflected mountains and clouds were another way to see my twin, one immersed in the other. It was comforting to witness the twinning in nature. The Doppelgänger effect became more obvious, there were doubles in all the forms and shapes in front of me. It has taken me twenty years to see and feel these connections and this body of work explores these ideas, the presence of loved ones in the landscape.