Eleanor Crow grew up in Cornwall, later moving to Suffolk and then Gloucestershire. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art (BA Fine Art Drawing & Painting), and Central Saint Martins (MA in Communication Design). She worked as a book cover designer for Faber & Faber before returning to painting full-time, following short courses at the RDS with Robert Dukes; Heatherley’s with Daniel Shadbolt and St Ives School of Painting with Alice Mumford.

She has lectured at a number of art colleges in the UK and in the Czech Republic in drawing and design, and teaches painting at the St Ives School of Painting. She is based in a studio in East London, and works from life, with an emphasis on observation, light and colour. Group exhibitions include Lynn Painter-Stainers, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Scottish Academy open exhibitions. She has had three solo shows at Town House Spitalfields in London, and shows work at Morgans Falmouth and The Old School Gallery in Alnmouth. She also has a book of watercolours Shopfronts of London published by Spitalfields Life Books with Batsford Books (2019), and is the illustrator of Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter.

Selected Exhibitions:
2023
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters ( ROI) Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Everyday solo exhibition, Town House Gallery, Spitalfields, London (7–22 October)
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition
Society of Women Artists 162nd Annual Open Exhibition, London
Town House Open, Town House Gallery, Spitalfields, London
Morgans Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth
2022
Morgans Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth
Town House Open, Town House Gallery, Spitalfields, London
2021
A Step Inside solo exhibition, Town House Gallery, Spitalfields, London
Society of Women Artists 160th Annual Open Exhibition, London
Highgate Contemporary Art Still Life Group Exhibition, London
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
Launch Exhibition (group show), Morgans Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
2020
Town House Open, Town House Gallery, Spitalfields, London
Autumn Exhibition, The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth
Spring Exhibition, The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth
2019
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
Shopfronts of London (solo exhibition of watercolours) Town House Gallery, London
2018
The London Eye II, The Millinery Works, London
Standing a Little Outside Life, Morley Gallery, London
2017
RSA Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2016
Lynn Painter-Stainers Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
Passing Trade solo exhibition of watercolours, WVWG, London
2014
Open Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
1994
Leith Open, Wasps Artists Studios, Edinburgh
1993
Graduate Gallery, Edinburgh
Nine, Eastern General Hospital, Edinburgh
Winter Exhibition, the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Scottish Artists & Artist Craftsmen, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

For works at Morgans Falmouth, see:
Morgans Gallery

For works at Old School Gallery, Alnmouth, see:
Old School Gallery

For her design and illustration work, see:
eleanorcrow.com

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