<b>Andrew Cranston</b>
(b. 1969)
 

 Andrew Cranston ) is a Scottish painter. His work has been reviewed and discussed in various publications such as The Guardian and The Spectator.
Andrew Cranston exhibited work at East International in 2007 and had a solo exhibition at International Project Space in Birmingham entitled What a Man Does in the Privacy of his Own Attic is his Affair in 2009.
But the dream had no sound (27 October - 21 December 2018) is the largest exhibition of Cranston's work of his career to date, that took place at the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh. The work, a series of paintings on hardback book covers, was described by the Scotsman as drawing its inspiration from post-impressionism, reminiscent of artists such as Bonnard, Vuillard, Seurat or Signac.

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Those who hide well live well
2022
Distemper on linen
210,4 x 150,6 cm
National Galleries Scotland
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/fr/art-and-artists/257107

In Those who hide well, live well, Cranston paints the view of a woodland from an interior setting inspired by the top-floor flat in Glasgow that he moved into during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. He enjoys sitting by the window (the translucent figure in the lower left corner could be him) and watching the morning sun come through the canopy of 80-foot-tall beech trees which stand outside the flats. The forest is Cranston’s preferred natural habitat: he grew up in Hawick, a town surrounded by woods and forests. Albrecht Altdorfer’s painting Saint George in the Forest, 1510 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) influenced Cranston’s decision to make the woodland the focal point of this painting. He intended to show what he describes as a ‘gentle ghostly sense of habitation’, as the tortoise, watermelon, and pot of tea in the foreground create an environment of comfort. The title is a translation from a Latin quote by Cicero, which Cranston felt captured his appreciation of the intimate aspects of the forced isolation during the Covid-19 lockdown.