In 2000, Crowe’s A Shepherd’s Life: Jenny Armstrong, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, caught the atmosphere of the bleak Pentland Hills. This was a rare distinction for a living artist. Further solo shows included On Reflection at the Thackeray Gallery in 2005, celebrating the artist’s sixtieth birthday, her twenty-fifth year of association with the gallery and her tenth solo exhibition there. Thackeray was involved in the book Victoria Crowe Painted Insights, which appeared in 2001, including texts by the artist and her husband, the artist and lecturer Michael Walton. The profusely illustrated volume included fine examples of Crowe’s richly imaginative work as well as her many distinguished portraits, among her subjects the composer Ronald Stevenson, the poet Kathleen Raine and actor Graham Crowden. Scottish Arts Council, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and many other public collections hold her work. Lived at West Linton, Borders.