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MARTYN BREWSTER (born 1952)

“Beauty & Sadness 11” 1996

Oil Painting on Canvas.

14” x 14”. Signed, titled & dated 1996 on reverse of canvas IMAGE

Martyn Brewster is a painter, printmaker and teacher. He was born in Oxford and studied at Hertfordshire College of Art and Design from 1970-71 and Brighton College of Art from 1971-75. He taught for a time at East Herts College, and was a visiting lecturer at Winchester School of Art. He has exhibited in the USA, France and Spain as well as regular solo exhibitions at the Gallery of Paintings and Monoprints. He has also shown solo at many other Galleries around the U.K. In 1997 he had a large travelling retrospective exhibition starting at Russell Cotes Museum and Art Gallery. A book was published to coincide with this exhibition, written by Simon Olding. He is one of Britain’s most important lyrical colour painters. His authoritative abstract oil paintings and dynamic prints are the persuasive outcome of a career as a professional painter which spans 20 years. He has established his reputation in abstract colour painting of romantic beauty and lyrical certainty, producing works which are held in private and public collections internationally. Brewster’s chosen territory lies in the area between abstraction and representation. As well as his work in oil he also produces dynamic screenprints and charcoal, ink and wash drawings of intensity and force. He has received several awards including the Easter Arts Award in 1977, the British Council Award to exhibit in USA in 1991, the Arts Award, Bournemouth Borough Council in 1992, the Openshaw Printmaking Award, Lowick House, Cumbria in 1994, the Arts Council of England Development Grant in 1995 and a Research & Scholarship Award from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. From 1996 to 1997 he had a printmaking residency at Lowick House, Cumbria. Brighton Polytechnic, The Open University and Winchester School of Art own his work.

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