01/06/2026
Andrew Cranston is a painter-storyteller, a way of working that is enhanced by his often painting on the linen bound covers of old books. His stories coalesce in the process of making - the paintings emerging gradually through the manipulation of his materials: layering, lacquering, bleaching, collaging and constantly re-working his way into images that seem to shift backwards and forwards in time. 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 perhaps to the intimism of Vuillard and Bonnard, or to Matisse or Munch.
Cranston’s work is housed in collections around the world, including: TATE, London, UK; He Art Museum, Shunde, China; H+, Suzhou, China; Royal College of Art, London, UK; Unilever Collection, London, UK; Hawick Museum, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK; National Gallery of Scotland, UK; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Hall Art Foundation, Vermont, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA and the Aishti Foundation, Beirut.
Cranston is exhibiting alongside his life partner and artistic peer, Lorna Robertson at Glasgow Print Studio later this month.
📍 Painting, our mutual friend at Glasgow Print Studio, part of , 5th June – 1st August 2026
Preview: Thursday 4 June, 5-8pm
Photo courtesy the artist and Norman Wilcox Geissen
