Andrew Cranston
Andrew Cranston (born 22 July 1969) is a Scottish painter. Andrew Cranston, who describes himself as a story, although there is no clear story to tell.
This autobiographical activity combines selected passages, anecdotes and jokes from literature, second-hand narratives, images from film, and observations of life. Often creating directly on the covers of hardcover books, his work is not preconceived, but layered and remade images through the treatment of materials, paints, varnishes, collages, and suggestions that this activity initiates, until something fundamental comes together.
In the treatment of paintings, whether it is the addition of composite materials, the depiction of images, or the choice of colors, he also makes the works more hazy and dreamy. This attracted me to want to add mixed materials to the painting, but the first step is to do a good job of image depiction and color treatment in my work.
The autobiographical style always inspired me a lot. I was recording the emotional changes with the same repetitive things, while he questioned the authenticity of memory. Interwoven with passages drawn from literature, anecdotes, jokes and film imagery, these elements combine to make his paintings unique, intimate, and often dreamlike.