Artist     Martyn Brewster
Title      Lowick 248 1994
Date      1990's
object    Print
Media    Silk screen & monoprint
Size       to be measured
Ref          905

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Lowick 248 1994
Martyn Brewster was born in Oxford in 1952 and studied at Hertfordshire and Brighton Colleges of Art, graduating with an MA in Fine Art in 1975. He has exhibited with Jill George Gallery, London since 1986, and has had more than fifteen solo exhibitions at the gallery.

His work has been exhibited in France, Spain and the USA, and is represented in numerous public and private collections throughout the world. A monograph about his work: ‘Martyn Brewster’ by Professor Simon Olding was published by Scolar press in 1997 to accompany a travelling retrospective of the artist’s work.

In 2001 the Royal West of England Academy staged a large show of Martyn’s work in the Sharples and Winterstoke Galleries. He wrote of his work and its influences:

"My primary concern has always been with painting. I have never ceased to be fascinated and enthralled by the tactile and evocative qualities of paint, oil paint especially. Early on, I developed a particular interest in colour and abstraction which is the key to my work, coupled with a lyrical and poetic response to both Nature and the medium.

I have always loved the related activities of drawing and printmaking. The drawings represent a more direct response to nature and all are done outside, in front of the motif. It is a challenge to deal with light and shade, space and atmosphere, and to find new compositions amongst such an endless multitude of forms. The prints are the opposite, and allow for a complete absorption in colour and abstraction free from any directly associated references. Drawing influences printmaking, which affects painting and so on, each practice constantly enriching and extending the other, and inspiring new work."

Jill George Gallery have described his work as that of a:

‘dramatic – even spectacular - colourist whose works are vividly imbued with sparks of light. Often sharply contrasting sombre and bright tones, they invoke comparisons with a wide range of art historical antecedents from Turner, through Whistler’s nocturnes, to Diebenkorn’s Californian landscapes.’

Elsewhere he has been celebrated as one of the country’s most exciting lyrical colour painters whose work lies in the cusp of abstraction and representation.

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