Today's feature is a collection of Andrew Cranston's paintings using old book covers as canvases. Creating works that document every day feelings and events in a tangible homely way by using the patina of a well worn book.
'All (books) are accumulated from Cranston’s various pilgrimages to Voltaire & Rousseau, a bookshop in Glasgow founded by three brothers famed for their heaps of stacked books which their cat, Coco, perches on. Cranston always limits himself to the £1 section; when dissecting his chosen books, Cranston channels all his punk-like impulses by, in his words, “destroying one thing to create another”. He was initially drawn to the covers’ formal attributes – their intimate size, bleached colouring and worn surfaces suiting his ladened painterly visions. But having worked on them repeatedly since, he’s come to notice how uncannily similar the production of books and painting canvases are – both requiring firm tension and glue to prime them into shape.' Ted Target
