Title: Now its come to distances

Year: 2024

Media: acrylic on hardback bookcover

Size: 24 cm x 21 cm

About the work: The painting is a composite of still life and landscape, things near and far away. My first thought was to paint a candle on a table but, as is usually the case with the process of painting, this was a beginning that soon got lost in a sort of snakes and ladders game of hope and failure. Then a certain momentum was found and relationships were  activated: in tone, colour, shape, etc A kind of misty atmosphere developed and the candle turned into one of the flames visible at Grangemouth oil refinery, gas being burned off. I find this industrial sight compelling, even beautiful and horrifying, all at the same time.

Bio: Andrew Cranston was born in Hawick, Scotland in 1969. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic (1989-90), Grays school of art ( 1990-93) and the Royal College of Art (1994-96). His work is held in various Public and private collections including Tate gallery, London; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; Hepworth, Wakefield, Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, LACMA, Los Angeles, Pinault Collection, Paris. He lives and works in Glasgow and is represented by Ingleby gallery, Modern Art and Karma.