Martyn Brewster

From Dorset with Love

Recent paintings by Julian Bailey, Martyn Brewster, Vanessa Gardiner, Anthony Garratt,  Frances Hatch and Alex Lowery with sculpture by Clare Trenchard and woodcarvings by David West

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Online from 2 May. Open Wednesday 17 June – 12 July 2020

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.

Martyn’s work is presented framed unless otherwise stated. Any enquiries please call 01308 459511 or email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk.

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  Shadows and Light 120 x 100 cm £8,500

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  Winter Garden 4 90 x 90 cm £6,000

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  Evening Coast No.3 90 x 90 cm £6,000

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  Coastline No.5 100 x 90 cm £5,250

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  Winter Coast No.5 50 x 50 cm £2,800

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  Coastal Light No.17 50 x 60 cm £2,800

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  Coastal Light No.181 50 x 50 cm £2,750

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  Coastal Light No.182 60 x 30 cm £2,200

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  Seascape 50 x 40 cm £1,800

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  Nocturne No.5 40 x 30 cm £1,400

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  Nocturne No.1 etching ed.10/60 image size 20.5 x 29 cm 2019 framed £425

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  Nocturne No.15 original acrylic and collage on paper 10.5 x 15 cm unframed £380, framed 425

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  Landscape 10 etching (ed. 24/75) 14.5 x 14.5cm framed £260

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  Coastline Series No.1 St Aldhelm’s Head etching (ed. 48/60) 15 x 20 cm framed £260

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  Coastline Series No.4, Hengistbury Head Looking East etching (ed. 48/60) 15 x 20 cm framed £260

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  Nightfall No.1 Woodcut, edition of 50 20 x 20 cm Unframed £ 290

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  Nightfall No. 2 Woodcut edition of 40 20 x 20cm unframed £290 (Framed £360, 37 x 37 cm)

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  Lightfall Woodcut ed. 40 20 x 20 cm unframed £290 (framed £360 37 x 37 cm)

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  Snowfall Woodcut ed. 40 unframed £290 (framed £360 37 x 37 cm)

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  Coastline No.1 linocut monoprint unique 8 x 10cm 2020 Framed £120

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  Coastline No.5 linocut ed.50 image 10 x 10 cm unframed £120

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  Coastline No.6 Linocut ed.50 image 10 x 10 cm unframed £120

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  Coastline No.7 Linocut ed.50 image 10 x 10 cm unframed £120

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  Coastline No.8 Linocut ed.50 image 10 x 10 cm unframed £120

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. Recently he has introduced a more neutral palette which seems to give space for his use of tone – light and dark – and of the contrasting qualities of paint which can be thick or thin, translucent or opaque, defined or free flowing. Beautifully chosen vivid colour speaks out in the quieter surround creating paintings of contemplative power and pleasure.

Recently, Martyn has been drawing the Dorset coastline he loves mostly between Bournemouth and Hengistbury Head in pen and wash. He makes these figurative nature studies on site in front of the motif mostly in blacks, whites and tones searching to express the composition and drama he sees in the multiplicity of nature.

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 and the British Museum. Recently his work has entered the collections of Pallant House, Chichester and the Hepworth Wakefield. In London and New York he is represented by Waterhouse & Dodd. This is his third exhibition at Sladers Yard.

Martyn Brewster in his studio. photograph by Hattie Miles

Martyn Brewster’s new work can be viewed below. In addition to the paintings shown below, there will be a number of smaller paintings in the exhibition. Please click on an image to see them in a slide show with more details and prices. Any enquiries or for an invitation to the opening on 18 January please do contact Sladers Yard on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or t: 01308 459511.

NB after a number of enquiries I have uploaded images of the smaller paintings, drawings, etchings and linocuts which have been photographed in the gallery behind glass. We have done our best to show the works but please forgive the reflections and light interference in some of the photos.