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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈
@andycropperart.bsky.social
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A painter of night-time cityscapes and landscapes with uncanny atmospheres of eerie uncertainty. Sheffield, UK

My 'link in bio' 👉 https://bio.site/andycropperart

Husband to Nigel 👬 https://bsky.app/profile/sheffcitynigel.bsky.social
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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · Sep 18
𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥
𝘈 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴.

PV: Fri 10 Oct, 7:30pm
Exhibition: 11 Oct–15 Nov 2025
Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield

🔗 andycropper.art/cupola2025

#Kenopsia #SpiritOfPlace #BusStopGothic #UrbanRealism
A grid of 4 square top left: Cupola Contemporary Art Paintings By Andy Cropper A solo show of paintings by Andy Cropper, from haunting nocturnes to rarely shown early works. Preview: Friday 10 October, from 7:30 pm Open 11th October – 15th November 2025 Monday to Saturday, 10.00am - 6.00pm Artist Talk: Thursday 23rd October, 7.30pm www.cupolagallery.com/events www.andycropper.art/cupola2025 Top right: A large silhouette of a newly built austere building sits against a vibrant late evening blue sky. A couple of street lights light the foreground. Bottom left: We are looking at overgrown wasteland large bushes and weeds fill the painting, a lone bathtub sits adrift in the space. The painting feels forlorn. Bottom right: Cupola Contemporary Art 174-178a Middlewood Rd Hillsborough, Sheffield S6 1TD info@cupolagallery.com www.cupolagallery.com www.facebook.com/cupolagallerysheffield www.instagram.com/cupolacontemporaryart www.x.com/cupolagallery 0114 285 2665 Andy Cropper andy@andycropper.art www.andycropper.art www.facebook.com/andycropperart www.instagram.com/andycropperart 0795 168 1677 Painting: A misty crossroads at night. the view is empty of people, the street lights fill the scene with misty halos beneath them. Painting: The same crossroads as before but a vibrant sodium orange lit night time sky fills the scene, trees and rooftops are silhouetted against the sky. Painting: Against a vivid blue night time sky looms the silhouette of an English Church.
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I'm pleased to say the audio of my 'Artist Talk' with Karen Sherwood from Thursday 23rd of October at Cupola Contemporary Art is now available to listen to online.
See the 'link in bio' for details or click here - www.cupolagallery.com/.../10/andy-...
In the corner of a white gallery space you can see Andy being interviewed by Karen Sherwood, owner of Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield. They are sat in front of Andy's large minimal blue painting "Blue Hour". An audience is listening.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours. Recent hardbacks include Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour' (you'll also receive a free 'Inventory' pamphlet). Order here:
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Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing outward, against a dark background.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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An excellent show, Andy. Good to meet and talk with you earlier!
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I visited this afternoon. Absolutely beautiful paintings.
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Put together during the first year of Covid here's an experiment in mental wandering. Hope you enjoy :
'The Noble Castle and The Ideal City: A Perfect Envisioning Of Something Deficient And Bleak? A Textual / Pictorial Wandering.'
Written December 2020

www.andycropper.art/blog/the-nob...
The Noble Castle and The Ideal City: A Perfect Envisioning Of Something Deficient And Bleak? A Textual / Pictorial Wandering. — Andy Cropper — Painter, established 2008. Sheffield, UK.
Originally shared: Wednesday 9 December 2020
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November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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It's around this time of year I rewatch this stunning short about the photographer Alexandra de Steiguer and her time at the Oceanic Hotel, New England. A study in solitude, stillness and enduring.
andycropperart.bsky.social Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · Dec 15
Brian Bolster
𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 2018

A beautiful 14min video depicting the photographer, Alexandra de Steiguer, also caretaker for the Oceanic Hotel, who's spent past 19+ winters alone tending to the 43-acre grounds of the hotel, which sits 10 miles off the coast of New England.

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The Challenge of True Solitude
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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November 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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It's the last day of my show with Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield. If you’re about come down and check it out. 👍 The gallery closes at 6pm.

🔗 More info: www.cupolagallery.com
🔗 &: www.andycropper.art/cupola2025
A view of the gallery and paintings With words underneath: It's the last day of my show at Cupola Contemporary Art Closing at 6pm
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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I'm incredibly pleased to say me and my show at Cupola Contemporary Art are in the latest edition of Sheffield's Exposed Magazine. I talk about my background, influences, and ideas.

Online version: www.exposedmagazine.co.uk/arts-culture...
November 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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It's the last day of my show with Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield. If you’re about come down and check it out. 👍 The gallery closes at 6pm.

🔗 More info: www.cupolagallery.com
🔗 &: www.andycropper.art/cupola2025
A view of the gallery and paintings With words underneath: It's the last day of my show at Cupola Contemporary Art Closing at 6pm
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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We're in the last week of my show at Cupola Contemporary Art, and with it being 'Meet The Artist Monday' I'm here especially to have a chat with folk 'til 4pm today, so if you're free pop on by ❤️

🔗www.cupolagallery.com
🔗www.andycropper.art/cupola2025
Andy is stood in front of his painting 'Golden Mist', a nighttime view of an apartment complex at night lit by luminous sodium light surrounded by mist and street lights.
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/untitled-1977
Untitled
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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'Memories From The Present: Worn Leatherette...', 2021 -📍Sold
Acrylic and oil on panel
18x32cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
A small painting of a gnarly, sofa. Made from Leatherette it is split, mouldy, knackered. It's been sat for a time outside and has a strange presence A collection of small paintings in a grid A variety of paintings of different sizes on a white wall.
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘍𝘶𝘭𝘭?: 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘥" 𝗡𝗼. 𝟬𝟮, 2025
Acrylic and oil on card
18cm x 12.3cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
A small painting on card of z discarded bottle hidden behind a weed leaning against a brick wall On a white plinth are 3 paintings of discarded drinks and bottles seen at night on a road
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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'Bath, Brush & Mist', 2015 -📍Sold
Acrylic and oil on panel
50x37.5cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
Painting- It's twilight and a white plastic bath sits in the middle of a load of weeds, bush and brush. The atmosphere is strange, moody and melancholy
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Baum
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Baum
October 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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'𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘍𝘶𝘭𝘭?: 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘥' 𝗡𝗼. 𝟬𝟭, 2025
Acrylic and oil on card
10.5x18cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
There is a painting on card of a glass with some beer still in it laying on a brick tiled floor. On a plinth can be seen several small paintings,
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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'Golden Hour', 2025
Acrylic and oil on panel
18x32cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
A small vertical formatted painting of the side of a brick house. Half in shadow and half lit by the golden hour glow of the setting sun. A strong blue sky sits over the roof of the building A white gallery space with many paintings A white gallery space with many paintings
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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'Foreshadowing', 2020
Acrylic and oil on panel
50x50cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
The view if of a covered walkway of a supermarket carpark. It's nighttime and and the walkway is self illuminated. It is an eerie scene. The view if of a white gallery space, many paintings of different sizes are on the walls.
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Leonardo Da Vinci :
Birch Copse (A stand of trees), c.1508

Red chalk
193 x 153 mm | 7.59 x 6.02 in

Royal Collection Trust
©His Majesty King Charles III 2022
Recto: a drawing of the edge of a copse of birches. Verso: a study of a single tree, with a few sprays of undergrowth; below are notes on the drawing of trees. A section of Leonardo’s proposed Treatise on Painting was to deal with the fall of light on leaves. This delicate study of a tree - perhaps a young elm - is accompanied by a note that discusses the different appearance of leaves in sunlight and in shadow.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Ergy Landau. Gare Saint-Lazare, 1934.

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view of a steam train. lots of tracks as its near a busy statiom
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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'Posters', 2011
Acrylic and oil on canvas
100x100cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
We can see a 1m× cm square painting of a wall covered in ripped advertising posters that have been placed and the ripped off over a significant period of time, leaving something that almost feels abstract. A white gallery space with paintings of many different kinds on the walls
November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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'Tree Silhouttes', 2025
Acrylic and oil on panel
18x36 cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
A painting shows tree silhouttes against a dark bluish sky A white wall with 2 paintings showing views of trees against a blue sky The corner of a white gallery space. You can see many paintings ofnightscenes of urban settings.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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'Mugger'sBridge', 2020
Acrylic and oil on panel
50x50cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
A square painting shows steps going up to a wrought iron, metal clad bridge. The steps are surrounded by metal fencing. The whole scene is lit in a peculiar peach light, with a bluer more purple light coming from a different direction On a white wall can be seen many paintings showing scenes of Sheffield
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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'Memories From the Present' : 'We Never Did get those Drinks Did We?', 2021 -📍Sold
Acrylic and oil on panel
18x32cm

If you are interested in this work or others get in touch with Karen or Graham via www.cupolagallery.com where contact details are available.
There are 3 nightclub poster holders on a wall, empty of posters showing the bare backing boards..In the middle someone has scrawled 'We Never Got Those Drinks, Did We?' On a white wall can be seen a bunch of paintings in a grid. All show images of Sheffieldthe city. On a white wall can be seen a bunch of paintings in a grid and other paintings of different sizes along side. All show images of Sheffieldthe city.
November 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM