'Tower', 2023
Name: ‘Tower’, 2023
Measurements: canvas height: 106.7cm (42”) x canvas width: 81.3cm (32”) x canvas depth: 1.8cm (0.7“)
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint on 12oz acrylic primed cotton duck canvas on a wooden stretcher-frame.
Price: £2000. If you are interested in contacting me about this work please contact me via my contact page.
Frame: Supplied with an obeche hardwood tray frame, which is 3.7cm deep, giving the canvas a 5mm shadow gap all around. The face of the frame is 1.2cm wide.
Location: Sylvester Street, Sheffield - Google maps link
There is an archival quality giclée print available to buy (as can be seen in the photos) from this page - ‘Tower’ giclée print.
Name: ‘Tower’, 2023
Measurements: canvas height: 106.7cm (42”) x canvas width: 81.3cm (32”) x canvas depth: 1.8cm (0.7“)
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint on 12oz acrylic primed cotton duck canvas on a wooden stretcher-frame.
Price: £2000. If you are interested in contacting me about this work please contact me via my contact page.
Frame: Supplied with an obeche hardwood tray frame, which is 3.7cm deep, giving the canvas a 5mm shadow gap all around. The face of the frame is 1.2cm wide.
Location: Sylvester Street, Sheffield - Google maps link
There is an archival quality giclée print available to buy (as can be seen in the photos) from this page - ‘Tower’ giclée print.
Name: ‘Tower’, 2023
Measurements: canvas height: 106.7cm (42”) x canvas width: 81.3cm (32”) x canvas depth: 1.8cm (0.7“)
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint on 12oz acrylic primed cotton duck canvas on a wooden stretcher-frame.
Price: £2000. If you are interested in contacting me about this work please contact me via my contact page.
Frame: Supplied with an obeche hardwood tray frame, which is 3.7cm deep, giving the canvas a 5mm shadow gap all around. The face of the frame is 1.2cm wide.
Location: Sylvester Street, Sheffield - Google maps link
There is an archival quality giclée print available to buy (as can be seen in the photos) from this page - ‘Tower’ giclée print.
‘Tower’, was painted during the difficult years of 2022 and 2023, and holds a special place in my heart. It somehow echoes a personal experience, and possibly a collective one — the resilience that carried us through, with the shadows that danced across these times. ‘Tower’ stands, inviting you to explore your own emotions within its textured layers. The structure shows the skeletal under-form of what has since become the ‘Platform’ apartment building sitting on Sylvester Street, Sheffield.
An archival quality giclée print of ‘Tower’ is available to buy online. Just click the images below, or click here to go to the page.
▲ YouTube | Sheffield Museums | Andy Cropper: In the Studio
‘Meet Sheffield-based painter, Andy Cropper. Join us behind the scenes in his studio and find out how he creates his night-time cityscapes and landscapes of Sheffield. He looks at forms, spaces and places that many may consider mundane or marginal and his paintings become symbols of mystery. They're about observing an uncanny atmosphere of uncertainty within the spaces of daily life.’
In this video you can see Andy working through the stages of the painting that became Tower .
▲ A video showing all the layers that went into the creation of ‘Tower’.
Here are all the layers that went into the making of the painting ‘Tower’ below.
▲ 09. ‘The Final Finishing/ Snagging/ Jewel Oil Colour Layer’.
▲ 08. ‘The Second Oil Colour Layer’.
▲ 07. ‘The First Oil Colour Layer’.
▲ 06. ‘The Black & White / Moonlight/ Grisaille/ Dead Layer’.
▲ 05. ‘The Second Umber / Brown/ Brunaille Oil Colour Layer’.
▲ 04. ‘The First Umber / Brown/ Brunaille Oil Colour Layer’.
▲ 03. ‘The Wash/ Stain/ Imprimatura Layer’.
▲ 02. ‘The Inking In Layer’.
▲ 01. ‘The Initial Drawing In’.
▲ The blank canvas and its frame.
▲ A quick moment showing ‘Tower’, 2023, as part of the show ‘Babel’ at ILKON (Ilkeston Contemporary). ‘Babel’ - a group show of painters from around the UK responding to the theme of the 'Tower of Babel'. Curated and organised by the excellent Bryan Eccleshall, who can be seen on the right. 11th November - 4th December, 2023.
