Andrew Cranston

Plus Magazine,
Andrew Cranston

Photography, Creative & Art Direction: Edvinas Bruzas
Words: Lola Kramer
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Commissioned by Jae Kim
Featured in Plus Magazine, Issue 7

“For nearly three decades, Scottish painter Andrew Cranston has crafted dreamlike works reminiscent of Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. His paintings capture daily life with a blend of innocence, wonder, curiosity, and oddity, often on linen book covers using rabbit skin glue and varnish. Cranston seamlessly merges the familiar with the uncanny, employing shifting perspectives that transition from expansive landscapes to intimate domestic scenes. In pieces like Heads or tails (2015), viewers shift from a bird’s-eye view of a pet shop to a close-up inside a rabbit cage, such as in You don't need to be strange to be strange (2019), where one finds themselves among the rabbits, observing a child at the hutch. Cranston's remarks reflect his approach, inviting viewers to explore and reinterpret the spaces within his paintings, which are impressionistic, asynchronous, and occasionally absurd, evoking the fluidity of reverie.”

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