Blue Shadow 1. 2017. Acrylic and collage on canvas. 90 x 110cm.
Martyn’s work is inspired by colour and light, by the natural landscape and the sea on the Dorset coast. Martyn Brewster’s lyrical abstract paintings combine seductive combinations of colour with vigorous poetic compositions, producing paintings, linocuts, etchings and pen and ink drawings of the Dorset coast that are collected worldwide. His drawings are often made on site and these and his etchings tend to be more figurative and in black and white with a brilliant control of tone. Like his paintings, Martyn’s silkscreen and linocut prints set colours against one another to find poetic expression in strong lyrical abstract compositions.
Martyn has lived near the cliffs and beaches of Southbourne in Dorset for thirty years inspired by the natural landscape, the sea and the light as well as by colour and by the paint itself. Varying from vivid colour to a more neutral palette, his use of tone – light and dark – and of the contrasting qualities of paint itself – thick or thin, translucent or opaque, defined or free flowing – combines to create paintings of contemplative power and emotion.
Martyn has been a serious and productive printmaker for many years, developing his own silkscreen techniques and making relief prints and etchings in his print studio. Recently he has been working with master printer Andrew Smith to make complex multi-plate carborundum prints. Andrew worked extensively with Howard Hodgkin.
We are delighted to hold stock of Martyn Brewster’s paintings, prints and drawings which can be bought from the gallery and shipped or viewed here by appointment. Martyn’s work is presented framed unless otherwise stated. Any enquiries please call 01308 459511 or email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk.
Martyn Brewster was born in Oxford in 1952. He studied Art and Design in Hertfordshire and Fine Art (Painting) in Brighton followed by a Postgraduate diploma in Printmaking. He has been working as a professional artist ever since with regular solo shows in museums and galleries in London and throughout the UK as well as exhibitions in USA, Canada and throughout Europe. He has won numerous awards and his work is in private, public and corporate collections worldwide including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, Pallant House, Chichester, and the Hepworth Wakefield.
Between 1980-2004 he was a part time lecturer in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and Arts University Bournemouth. Martyn has lived in Dorset since 1990 and is a member of Group 7. In 2002 he set up a print workshop in Bournemouth Studio. Martyn has recently been elected to the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (ARE) and was awarded the Mike Brennan Print Prize in 2023. He is represented in London by the Portland Gallery and in New York by Modern Fine Art.
Sladers Yard is very pleased to have represented Martyn in the West Country since 2017.
Martyn Brewster in his studio. Photograph by Hattie Miles.
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