The rare art-world late bloom of Lorna Robertson and Andrew Cranston

The familial themes in both Cranston and Robertson’s work – playing upon memory, and layers of time – have required a patience that has now brought the couple into a rare late art-world bloom in their 50s. Shelves of hardbacked books from Glasgow’s legendary second-hand bookshops Voltaire & Rous...

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Published inFT.com
Main Author Whittle, Natalie
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London The Financial Times Limited 24.01.2024
Subjects
Art exhibits
Artists
Museums
Paints
New York
Scottish Borders
United States > US
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Summary:The familial themes in both Cranston and Robertson’s work – playing upon memory, and layers of time – have required a patience that has now brought the couple into a rare late art-world bloom in their 50s. Shelves of hardbacked books from Glasgow’s legendary second-hand bookshops Voltaire & Rousseau (where Robertson also gets materials from house clearances) and Caledonia Books are left open and turned into canvases – a technique Cranston is known for. The post-impressionists, who captured the lushness of differing lights and domestic rituals, have a kind of filmy presence in his work. French-tinged work by another Hawick painter, Anne Redpath, was “kicking around the town”, in his line of sight at the museum and library.