Andrew Cranston: Never a Joiner by ANDREW CRANSTON

Description

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. 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. These are narrative paintings, drawn from the artist’s memory and observations of life and liberally sprinkled with references to cinema, literature and art history. This publication presents a selection of the book cover paintings for which Cranston has become well known in recent years.

ISBN: 9781910221532
Author(s): ANDREW CRANSTON