Andrew Cranston is a painter-storyteller who uses book covers as the surface for his intimate dream-like paintings. His stories emerge during the process of making - imagery appearing gradually through the manipulation of his materials: layering, lacquering, bleaching, collaging and constantly re-working. He has described one of his works as ‘a painting that came out of my brush one day’, a statement that sums up his approach. They are resolutely contemporary in spirit and yet connected by a strong thread to painters of the past, especially to Bonnard, Matisse and Munch.
ANDREW CRANSTON (British, 1970)
oil on hardback book cover
Acquired in 2024
