Andrew Cranston
Cranston’s paintings draw from personal memories, literary fragments, humorous anecdotes, and everyday observations, transforming seemingly ordinary scenes into dreamlike visual moments. He often paints on the covers of old books, layering oil and varnish to create a surface that feels both modest and mysterious. His works occupy a space between intimacy and estrangement—imbued with the soft light and warmth of French Post-Impressionists such as Bonnard and Vuillard, yet retaining the rustic wit and narrative sensibility of British figurative painting.
Solo Exhibitions
• 2023 What made you stop here?, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
• 2021 Waiting for the Bell, Karma, New York
• 2018 But the dream had no sound, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
• 2017 If I was a Carpenter and other stories, Wilkinson Gallery, London
• 2016 Paintings from a Room, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Group Exhibitions
• 2025 Dreams of the everyday: paintings by Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston, Pier Arts Centre & Holburne Museum, UK
• 2025 75 Years of New Contemporaries, Christie’s, London
• 2023 The Inner Island, Fondation Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, France
• 2022 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
• 2016 Outside
Public Collections
•Tate, London
•LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles
•MAXXI, Rome
•Pinault Collection
•National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
•Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney