William Crozier at 80
Flowers, 82 Kingsland Road, E2, until 29 May
Agnes Martin
Timothy Taylor Gallery, 15 Carlos Place, W1, until 22 May
William Crozier is Scottish born, but has lived much abroad, spending his formative years in Paris and Dublin, and later working in Spain and America, though always keeping a foothold in England. His sensibility is broadly European, perhaps influenced by the Scottish predisposition to plangent colour, and his work has an intellectual base and emotional breadth that sits easily in an international context. Step into the East End premises of Flowers and be prepared for a blaze of pure visual excitement and pleasure. The effect of this 80th birthday celebration is exhilarating.
Most of the work was done in the last three or four years, but the main ground-floor space in Shoreditch is dominated by an earlier painting entitled ‘Departure from the Island’ (1993).
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