Andrew Cranston: The Fall Guy

Andrew Cranston: The Fall GuyOften depicting narrative vignettes drawn from his own personal history, or literary and anecdotal sources, Andrew Cranstons work is consistently concerned with narrative and storytelling. Incorporating varnish and collage onto his paintings, Cranston enacts a layered referentiality with an often surreal, deadpan sense of humour. Working mostly as a painter, Cranston is interested in lithography for its proximity to drawing. The crayons, used to draw

This complex screenprint by Moulding – produced by layering several colours both opaque and transparent over one another – creates a psychological geometric landscape that arrives as stated in its title – in flux

where in 2003 the sea walls were breached to allow the sea to come back in

Once they moved to the hills and hollers of the mountains they became Hill Billies instead of Billy Boys

Drawing on a three month period of research in Japan this work develops visual themes explored in his previous solo show at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery in 2015

Since 1983

Whereas Patterns was a suite that explored idealised images

ISLAND is based around the strange architectural history of Inchgarvie whose now uninhabited ruins tell of past lives as a castle

the latter a prehistoric crannog

He has exhibited extensively in Britain and abroad

leading many projects

Harbours and coastlines are prominent in her paintings

the microscopic