Angie Crabtree

About

Painter, artist, Instagram star, and jewelry designer known for her hyperrealistic portraits of diamonds and other precious gemstones. She is also known for sharing her art on Instagram with over 100,000 followers.

Before fame

She began taking painting classes around 5 years old and was teaching painting by 12 years old. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Amsterdam's Gerrit Rietveld Academie before earning her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. She worked as a high-school art teacher until establishing her art business and leaving teaching in 2015.

Trivia

She painted her first five-foot diamond portrait for the Living the Dream exhibition in 2012. She debuted her first museum solo exhibition Garden of Eve at the Long Beach Museum of Art in 2025. She also completed her first public mural during the 2025 Long Beach Walls festival.

Family life

She grew up on a ranch in Sonoma County where her grandfather mined for gold and took her collecting rocks such as obsidian. Her mother's engagement ring was among her earliest personal connections to diamonds. She married third-generation jeweler Shah Singh with whom she launched a fine jewelry collection in 2023.

Associated with

Her artwork appeared in the 2016 Art LeadHER exhibition curated by Mashonda.