William Crozier was a Scottish-born artist who gained recognition in the late 1950s as one of the most inventive British landscape painters the post-war period. He divided his later life between Hampshire and West Cork, and was elected to Aosdána, the prestigious association of Irish artists, in 1982.
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By 1958, Crozier had set up a studio in Pebmarsh, Essex, and quickly began to develop the distinctively expressive landscapes for which he would become known. His deep, atmospheric colours and playful mark-making soon caught the attention of the Drian and Tooth galleries in London, and his work became a regular presence in both thereafter.
Crozier became an Irish citizen in 1973, and by the 1980s he was spending protracted periods in West Cork, where he found a landscape with which he formed a profound connection. The remainder of his time was spent in Hampshire, where he was Head of Painting at Winchester School of Art.
Crozier died on 12th July 2011.