Painting, our mutual friend

Etching of a tabletop scene rendered in muted colours and soft lines

Soft blue etching depicting a child looking up at a giant prehistorical skeleton in a musuem.

Etching with loose brushstrokes in a wide colour range depicting figures wearing hats.

Etched composition with textured mark-making brushstrokes forming a colourful scene of elegdantly dressed people.

Dates and Opening times: Fri 5 Jun - Sat 1 Aug

Mon - Sat, 10am - 5:30pm

Closed Sundays apart from Sun 14 Jun
Venue: Glasgow Print Studio, Trongate 103, G1 5HD
Participants: Andrew Cranston Lorna Robertson
Presented by: Glasgow Print Studio
Accessiblity: Level Access, Step Free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors

Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet

Hearing Loop: The venue has a hearing loop available

Baby Change: The venue has baby changing facilities

Bike Rack: There is cycle parking at the venue

Painting, our mutual friend is an exhibition of etching, monoprints, watercolours and oil paintings exploring the dynamic relationship between printmaking and painting through the creative and personal partnership of artists Andrew Cranston and Lorna Robertson. Working in close proximity yet with distinct approaches, the artists reveal both contrast and symbiosis within their practices.

Andrew’s work is rooted in oil painting, using canvas and found book covers as matrices to build richly layered surfaces of varnish, paint, and distemper, creating works dense with material and narrative complexity.

Lorna uses paint, drawing, and collage to create shimmering, layered interpretations of a world that feels other yet nostalgically familiar. Her work moves between intimate drawings and large-scale canvases, exploring colour, form, and the female figure with a strong sense of narrative, place, and movement.

Developed through experimental residencies at Glasgow Print Studio from 2025 to 2026, Surface Tension presents new print works alongside painting, exploring screenprinting, etching, monoprint, and woodcut, considering how these practices intersect as a cohesive body of work.