Andrew Cranston (b. 1969) was born in Hawick on the Scottish Borders and now lives and works in Glasgow. A painter-storyteller whose quiet, mediative images have gained increasing attention over the last decade, he studied at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen and completed postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art, where he was taught by Peter Doig.
Painting for Cranston “is an act of remembering and forgetting, covering and uncovering, tracing and retracing, getting lost and finding a way”. Working in traditions that recall Bonnard and Matissehis images coalesce in the process of making - emerging gradually through the manipulation of materials: layering, lacquering, bleaching and collaging. He is constantly re-working his way into images that seem to shift backwards and forwards in time.
His paintings are held in collections around the world, including: Loewe Foundation, Madrid, Spain; He Art Museum, Shunde, China; the Huamo Museum, 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.