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1951): Bio info sheet; "Lines of Migration," travelling exhibition 2003—USA, Trinidad, Canada—brochure; "Horizons," 2004 exhibition invitation/announcement (email); "Wild Ecstasy: Sober Pleasures," exhibition 2004 announcement (email), artist's statement (email), brochure, etc.; "Hope," 2008 exhibition catalogue; photographs of three of his paintings; correspondence with Anne Walmsley, 1995-2008., Box: 3, Folder: 4.

Although informed by the landscape, the artist willfully avoids direct allusion. In 2023, he received a solo survey, Incandescence, with Diane Rosenstein Gallery Los Angeles in 2023, accompanied by a retrospective catalogue. 

Crichlow’s paintings are in the permanent collection of the Barbados National Art Gallery, Barbados; Mervyn Awon Collection, Barbados; and the Central Bank Museum, National Art Museum, and Republic Bank Art Collection, all in Trinidad.

For all their abstraction, the works offer a surprising depth of field, like depictions of an imaginary space flecked with teasing glints of sensory experiences. As with others of his works, these energy flows can be read as physical, biological or more ethereal—as if gazing beyond the surface of phenomenological experience to reveal the dynamismbeneath.

The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies . But if one feels fiery and the other watery, both similarlyorchestrate order from chaos, culling a sense of internal structure that seems almost musical at times, with flows of energy set off along a rhythmic armature of vertical elements.

Foreday–d’light at d’horizon (2023)depicts an effusion of gold specks amid streaksof canary, ochre and mustard.

The artist received a MPhil from the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica (2019); BA from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK (1978), and a Teacher's Certificate from Mausica Teachers College, Trinidad and Tobago (1972). 

His paintings were exhibited in solo and group presentations with Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, at Independent 20th Century, New York City, NY (2023), and in solo shows at Y Gallery, Port of Spain, TT (2013-2022).

Here, the artist’s washy textures transform into vigorous post-Expressionist swaths, dabs and brushstrokes, while his palette is distilled into brilliant jewel-like displays of primary and secondary colors that suggest tropical flora and hint at elemental forces:yellow and white for light, red and orange for fire, blue for sea or sky, green for vegetation.

Its opposite in terms of color, Light Dancing on the Borderline (2019) presents twirling vertical yellow and white pillars against a teal blue expanse. A grant to study art at Goldsmiths College in London in the 1970s marked a dramatic turning point for his practice, as the young painter was directly exposed to some of the great Modern masters for the first time.

While theearly works are grounded in the daily life of his island nation, depicting figures in abstracted landscapes, the artist’s recent works arevividly abstract. Anne Walmsley Collection, SC 159.