Stephen Cranston

I often discover what I am making whilst making it, juxtaposing disparate imagery and materials. I embrace chaos and chance, channeled within the confines of tidy spaces; the size and medium dictated by what I have to hand. There are familiar themes in my work, often diametrically opposed, and the process of making becomes an attempt at maintaining balance between them, such as artifice with truth, absurdity with rationality, incongruity with belonging, esotericism with lucidity.