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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 7h

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 22h

1: Me, stood in-front of the reference for the painting 'Now', 2024. Elshaw House, Sheffield.
2: A view of the painting on display in Cupola Contemporary Art.
3: Prints are available - contact Cupola Contemporary Art for details www.cupolagallery.com
4: A close up view of the painting, 'Now', 2024.

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 20h

Sold!
On the opening night too!
Seen at twilight many moons ago on an early night walk, now on show at Cupola Contemp. Art, Sheffield.

Strong overtones of Millais’s ‘Ophelia’ portrayal of Elizabeth Siddal - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia...

Bath, Brush & Mist, '15
Oil & acrylic on panel
50 × 37.5cm

A realistic painting of an overgrown area with tangled grasses and plants in muted greens, browns, and greys, suggesting late autumn or winter during twilight. At the centre, a white plastic bath is partly hidden by the foliage. The work is titled 'Bath, Brush & Mist', 2015 by Andy Cropper, shown on a gallery wall with a red dot sticker on the label indicating it has been sold.

'Bath, Brush & Mist', 2015
Oil and acrylic on panel
50cm x 37.5cm

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 20h

Sold!
On the opening night too!
Seen at twilight many moons ago on an early night walk, now on show at Cupola Contemp. Art, Sheffield.

Strong overtones of Millais’s ‘Ophelia’ portrayal of Elizabeth Siddal - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia...

Bath, Brush & Mist, '15
Oil & acrylic on panel
50 × 37.5cm

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 22h

1: Me, stood in-front of the reference for the painting 'Now', 2024. Elshaw House, Sheffield.
2: A view of the painting on display in Cupola Contemporary Art.
3: Prints are available - contact Cupola Contemporary Art for details www.cupolagallery.com
4: A close up view of the painting, 'Now', 2024.

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 2d

I feel incredibly grateful to everyone who came along on Friday to mark the opening of my show at @cupolacontemporaryart. Sharing the work with such generous company, and seeing it so warmly received, made the night unforgettable.

Thank you,
Ax

📸 Graham Shapley
📸 @johnlau_fineart
📸 @andycropperart

A photograph looking into a gallery space with paintings on the walls and a sign on the window which says -
Paintings
Andy Cropper
11 October - 15 November

looking inside a white gallery space, paintings on the walls, and several people talking

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 2d

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥
𝘈 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿.

🔗 More info: www.andycropper.art/cupola2025

looking inside a white gallery space, paintings on the walls, Andy can be seen in the process of spot-checking his paintings

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 2d

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥

🖼 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 11 October – 15 November 2025
📍 Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
@cupolacontemporaryart
🎙 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸:Thursday 23 October, 7:30 pm

🔗 More info: www.andycropper.art/cupola2025

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 2d

I feel incredibly grateful to everyone who came along on Friday to mark the opening of my show at @cupolacontemporaryart. Sharing the work with such generous company, and seeing it so warmly received, made the night unforgettable.

Thank you,
Ax

📸 Graham Shapley
📸 @johnlau_fineart
📸 @andycropperart

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 5d

thank you Glyn ☺️👍 thankfully the evening went well I'm pleased to say

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Andy ☺️👍 thankfully it was a good one! (phew)

Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 5d

thanks Joza!
Oh excellent!! i'd missed that!

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 5d

Tonight, 7.30pm launch!
My word.... I think we're ready!!

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥

📅 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: Tonight, 7:30 pm
🖼 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 11 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
📍 Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
@cupolacontemporaryart
🎙 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸:Thurs 23 Oct, 7:30 pm

🔗 info: www.andycropper.art/cupola2025

The words
Paintings
Andy Cropper
11 October - 15 November
Cover a gallery window. Inside can be seen a variety of paintings showing nighttime scenes and views

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 6d

Me doing a bit of spot-checking in time for tomorrow
👨‍🎨🖼

Andy is stood in front of his painting 'St Mary's Underpass'. A large dark painting of trees in an urban setting. Andy obscures some of the frame as he is touching up scuffs on the picture frame. The gallery is white painted walls and a grey painted floor. In the foreground can be seen Andy’s palette open showing a variety of colours Andy uses in his painting

Andy is stood in front of his painting 'Blue Hour'. A large dark painting of a street light against an intensely dark blue sky. Andy obscures some of the frame as he is touching up scuffs on a nearby much smaller painting that also holds the same blue. The gallery is white painted walls and white painted floorboards.

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Claire 😊😊😊
Will post piccies of how things go 👍

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 6d

Opening tomorrow at 7.30pm, everybody welcome!
❤️

Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 8d

PV this Friday from 7.30pm - 9.30pm,
all welcome

Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 7d

In the finishing stages of setting up the show for Friday

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥
📅 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: Friday 10 October, 7:30 pm
🖼 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 11 October – 15 November 2025
📍 Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
🎙 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸:Thursday 23 October, 7:30 pm

🔗 More Info: www.andycropper.art/cupola2025

Andy is stood with a paint brush, spot checking a painting for stray scratches and marks.

The view is of a white room -white floorboards and white painted walls and ceiling - the archetypal white gallery. There are 2 paintings . A large, intensely blue painting, aview of a streetlights with an intensely dark blue sky behind it.

Andy is touching up a much smaller painting very definitely containing a similar hue and toned dark sky, but the rest of the details are obscured.

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 8d

PV this Friday from 7.30pm - 9.30pm,
all welcome

Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 27d

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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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 9d

A scene seen at twilight many, many moons ago.
On display in the show opening Friday:

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥
At Cupola Contemporary Art
📅 𝗣V: Fri 10 Oct, 7:30 pm
🖼 Open: 11 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
📍 Cupola Contemporary Art , Sheffield
🎙 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸:Thu 23 Oct, 7:30 pm
🔗 Info: www.andycropper.art/cupola2025

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks Andrew ☺️☺️

Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 9d

A scene seen at twilight many, many moons ago.
On display in the show opening Friday:

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥
At Cupola Contemporary Art
📅 𝗣V: Fri 10 Oct, 7:30 pm
🖼 Open: 11 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
📍 Cupola Contemporary Art , Sheffield
🎙 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸:Thu 23 Oct, 7:30 pm
🔗 Info: www.andycropper.art/cupola2025

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 12d

It's finished 😊 👍
This will be on display at my upcoming show, Friday:
𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥 At Cupola Contemporary Art
📅 𝗣𝘃: Fri 10 Oct, 7:30 pm
🖼 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 11 Oct - 15 Nov 2025
📍Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
🎙 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: Thurs 23 Oct, 7:30 pm

🔗 More info: andycropper.art/cupola2025

The night scene shows a Sheffield street, near midnight. The sky is a dark umber, with amber hues in certain areas. On the right side of the painting street lights line one side of the road. On the left a large apartment building lights up the scene in golden brightness. Several storeys high, the building fills a large part of the painting

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 11d

Just a reminder the show opens in Sheffield this coming Friday.
Details below -

Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 12d

It's finished 😊 👍
This will be on display at my upcoming show, Friday:
𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥 At Cupola Contemporary Art
📅 𝗣𝘃: Fri 10 Oct, 7:30 pm
🖼 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 11 Oct - 15 Nov 2025
📍Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
🎙 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: Thurs 23 Oct, 7:30 pm

🔗 More info: andycropper.art/cupola2025

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 11d

Just a reminder the show opens in Sheffield this coming Friday.
Details below -

Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 12d

It's finished 😊 👍
This will be on display at my upcoming show, Friday:
𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥 At Cupola Contemporary Art
📅 𝗣𝘃: Fri 10 Oct, 7:30 pm
🖼 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 11 Oct - 15 Nov 2025
📍Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
🎙 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: Thurs 23 Oct, 7:30 pm

🔗 More info: andycropper.art/cupola2025

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 12d

It's finished 😊 👍
This will be on display at my upcoming show, Friday:
𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥 At Cupola Contemporary Art
📅 𝗣𝘃: Fri 10 Oct, 7:30 pm
🖼 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 11 Oct - 15 Nov 2025
📍Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
🎙 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: Thurs 23 Oct, 7:30 pm

🔗 More info: andycropper.art/cupola2025

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