Martyn Brewster ARE
Radiance
18 November – 21 January 2024
At 70, Martyn Brewster’s paintings are as vital, various and eloquent as ever.
In autumn 2022, we were delighted to celebrate Martyn’s 70th birthday with a solo show of his dazzling paintings and drawings. Martyn Brewster is an artist gifted not only with technical ability for painting, drawing and printmaking, but also with a firm intellectual and emotional grasp of what he wants to say. His serious approach has been rewarded by commercial success from the start. His work is in an impressive list of national and international collections and has been exhibited widely and regularly.
The work itself is celebratory, inspired often by the beautiful Dorset coastline. Pen and ink drawings loosely describe the landscape in dazzling tonal works. His prints are ambitious and experimental. His paintings express depth and mystery in structured areas of colour. His love for paint itself is evident in the marks and the paint surfaces as well as a natural ebullience in the colours he chooses.
To quote Professor Simon Olding in his monograph on the life and work of Martyn Brewster published by Scolar Press to accompany a touring retrospective exhibition in 1997:
‘If he is compelled to paint from nature, or driven by emotional circumstances to produce works of often passionate beauty using the force of abstract colour as a guiding principle, then it has proved to be a life’s work of commanding strength and integrity.’
Any enquiries please call us on 01308 459511 or email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk.
Martyn Brewster’s paintings are shown below. Martyn’s prices include simple wooden frames, chosen by him. We are very pleased to continue to represent Martyn between exhibitions. During the Radiance show the paintings shown in the first group below will be in the gallery. Others are available to view upon request.
Tropical Nights 110 x 90cm acrylic on canvas £9,000 
Blue Shadows 1 acrylic and collage on canvas 90 x 110cm. SOLD 
Shadows & Light Series No. 7 acrylic and collage on canvas 100 x 90cm. £8,000 
Moonglow 2112. acrylic and collage on canvas. 90 x 90cm £6,500 
Winter Light Series 2017. oil on canvas. 90 x 90cm. £6,500 
Heartsong No. 55 2001. acrylic on canvas 51 x 51cm £3,500 
Heartsong No.58. 2001 acrylic on canvas. 51 x 51cm, £3,500 
Dark Sun II. 2013. acrylic on canvas. 30 x 30cm. £1,750 
Study for Radiant Light 25 x 25cm acrylic on paper framed with glass £1,500 
Heartsong series. 2007. acrylic on canvas. 25 x 25cm. £1,200
The paintings shown below are available to view by appointment. Please contact us on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk
1. Sail Away. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2021. 150 x 120cm. £13,000 
2. Shadows and Light 10. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2019. 120 x 100cm . £11,000 
3. Red Coast.5. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2016. 110 x 120cm. £11,000 
6. Blue Horizon 4. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2021. 110 x 90cm. £9,000 
7. Woodland Paths. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2021. 110 x 90cm. £9,000 
8. Summer Light. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2019. 110 x 90cm. £9,000 
9. Headland. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2021. 110 x 90cm. £9,000 
10. Summer Fields. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2022. 90 x 110cm. £9,000 
11. Nocturne No. 4. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2017. 90 x 110cm. £9,000 
15. Study for Headland. acrylic on canvas. 2021. 80 x 60cm. £6,250 
16. Fading Light acrylic and collage on canvas. 2016. 60 x 50cm. £5,000 
17. Red Night. acrylic on canvas. 2020. 60 x 50cm. £5,000 
18. Blue Horizon 2. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2016. 60 x 50cm. £5,000 
19. Crosswinds. acrylic on canvas. 2022. 60 x 50cm. £5,000 
20. Winter Light 2. acrylic on canvas. 2016. 50 x 50cm. £4,500 
21. Winter Light 3. acrylic on canvas. 2017. 50 x 50cm. £4,500 
22. Blue Haze. oil on canvas 2017. 50 x 40cm. £4,000 
23. Winter Landscape. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2018. 50 x 40cm. £4,000 
26. Nocturne No.5. acrylic on canvas. 2017. 40 x 30cm. £3,000 
27. Coastal Light Study. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2016. 40 x 30cm. £3,000 
28. Night Coast. acrylic on canvas. 2017. 30 x 24cm. £2,250 
29. Red Sound. acrylic on canvas. 2010. 30 x 30cm. £2,200 
30. Celebration. acrylic and collage on canvas. 2016. 30 x 21cm. £1,800 
32. Small Seascape. oil on canvas. 2021. 20 x 20cm. £1,500 
35. Coastal Light Drawing 10. acrylic on card. 2021. 17 x 21cm. £1,200 framed 
36. Coastal Light Drawing 11. acrylic on card. 2021. 20 x 24cm. £1,200 framed 
37. Summer Landscape acrylic on card. 2021. 15 x 21cm. £1,200 framed 
38. Composition 2. acrylic on card. 2021. 21 x 15cm. £1,200 framed 
39. Garden Drawing 6. Ink and wash on paper. 2021. 59 x 42cm. £850 framed 
40. Coastal Light Drawing 12. ink and wash on paper. 2021. 42 x 59cm. £850 framed 
41. Coastal Light Drawing 13. ink and wash on paper. 2021. 42 x 59cm. £850 framed 
42. Coastal Light Drawing 15. ink and wash on paper. 2021. 42 x 45cm. £800 framed 
43. Winter Landscape 2. acrylic on card. 2021. 15 x 21cm. £800 framed 
44. Coastal Drawing 9. acrylic on paper. 2021. 15 x 24cm. £650 framed 
45. Coastal Light Drawing 8. ink and wash on paper. 2021. 12 x 14cm. £450 framed 
46. Coastal Light Drawing 7. ink and wash on paper. 2021. 12 x 14cm. £450 framed 
47. Coastal Light Drawing 6. ink and wash on paper. 2021. 12 x 17.5cm. £450 framed
View Martyn Brewster’s Prints and Drawings
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.
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 (see cv below). He has recently been elected Associate Member of the RE, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. In London he is represented by the Portland Gallery, in New York by Waterhouse & Dodd and in the West Country by Sladers Yard.
Please contact the gallery on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk t: 01308 459511 with any enquiries about Martyn Brewster’s paintings, drawings or prints.
MARTYN BREWSTER ARE
British (born 1952)
1970-71 Hertfordshire College of Art and Design
1971-74 Brighton Polytechnic, BA Fine Art (Painting): first class honours
1974-75 Brighton Polytechnic, Postgrad Printmaking Diploma: distinction
2022 Elected Associate Member of the RE, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
Selected solo exhibitions:
1977 Hertfordshire College of Art (two person)
Watford Central Library Gallery, Hertfordshire
1978 Christy’s Art Gallery, Brighton
1982 Harlow Playhouse Gallery, Essex
Hornsey Library Gallery, London
1983 Peterborough City Museum and Art Gallery
Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery
1984 Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk
London College of Furniture
1985 Brighton Polytechnic (two person)
Wilmer Cutler and Pickering Law Associates, London
1986 Minories Art Gallery, Essex
Warwick Arts Trust, London
Winchester Gallery (touring exhibition)
1987 Woodlands Art Gallery, London
1988 ‘Shadows and Light’ Thumb Gallery, London
Bede Gallery, Jarrow
1989 Thumb Gallery, London (two person)
1990 ‘Light Falls’ Thumb Gallery, London
1992 Jill George Gallery, London
1993 Upstairs Gallery, Upton Country Park, Dorset
Pallant House Gallery, West Chichester
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Dorset
On Line Gallery, Southampton
‘New Works on Paper’ Jill George Gallery, London
1994 Contema Trichting, The Netherlands
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
Jill George Gallery, London
1995 ‘Monoprints from Lowick’ Jill George Gallery, London
1996 On Line Gallery, Southampton
‘Beauty and Sadness’ Jill George Gallery, London
1997 Coram Gallery, London
1997 Russell-Cotes Gallery and Museum, Dorset
Bournemouth (touring exhibition)
‘Monoprints from Lowick House’ Jill George Gallery, London
1998 Quay Art Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight
Pallant House Gallery, West Chichester
On Line Gallery, Southampton
‘Night Music’ Jill George Gallery, London
1999 Brighton University Art Gallery
‘Monoprints’ Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
‘Monoprints’ Jill George Gallery, London
2000 Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth University
‘Nature Paintings’ Jill George Gallery, London
2001 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
University of Winchester
‘Monoprints’ Jill George Gallery, London
2002 ‘The Headland Series’ Jill George Gallery, London
2003 ‘Monoprints and Drawings’ Jill George Gallery, London
2004 The Study Gallery, Poole, Dorset
Keller & Greene Gallery, Los Angeles, California
‘Heart Song’ Jill George Gallery, London
2005 ‘Monoprints’ Jill George Gallery, London
2006 Bettles Gallery, Hampshire
Dorset Arts Weeks, Bournemouth
‘Landscape Paintings’ Jill George Gallery, London
2008 ‘Monoprints’ (to accompany launch of book Martyn Brewster – Prints 1975-2007) Jill George Gallery, London
2009 Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Wiltshire
Jill George Gallery, London
Bournemouth University
2011 The Arthouse Gallery, Dorset
2012 ‘Coastal Light’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London
2014 ‘Night Poetry’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London
2016 ‘Martyn Brewster: Ocean Light Seascapes 1990 – 2015,’ Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
‘Recent paintings and drawings’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London
2017 ‘Coastal Light’ Sladers Yard, Dorset
‘Monoprints 1990-2010’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London online
2018 ‘Shadows and Light’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London
‘Nocturnes’ TheGallery, Arts University of Bournemouth
2019 ‘Park Paintings’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London
2020 ‘Light and Harmony’ Waterhouse & Dodd, New York
2022 ‘Recent work’ Portland Gallery, London
Martyn Brewster at 70 ‘Coast Lines’ Sladers Yard, Dorset
Selected Art Fairs:
1987-91 International Art Fair, Los Angeles
1989-2022 London Art Fair, Islington
1991 Atlanta ’91, Atlanta
1992 ARCO ’92 Madrid
1993 Art Chicago, Chicago
1995 FIAC, Paris
1996-98, 2007 Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland
1997 Contemporary Print Fair, London
1997-2008 20/21 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
1999 Santa Fe Art Fair, Santa Fe
2002-04 Art Palm Beach, Florida (Also 2013, 2019, 2020, 2021)
2003-05 Art London, Chelsea
2003-11 Art Chicago, Chicago
2006 Art Madrid, Madrid
2012 Abu Dhabi Art
2013, 2021 Art Wynwood, Miami
Selected public and corporate collections:
Arts Institute, Bournemouth, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Bede Gallery, Jarrow, BMW (UK), Bournemouth University, Dorset, British Museum, London, BUPA, Brighton Polytechnic, Cable and Wireless plc, Cambridge Institute of Education, Capital Initiatives, Central Japan Railway Co, Japan, Christiana Bank, London, Dell Computers, Ireland, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, East Hertfordshire College, Chestnut, Edwin Young Trust, Salisbury Museum, Emory University, USA, Epping Forest District Council, First Interstate Bank of California, Gartmore Investment Management, IBM (UK), Kirkless Borough Council, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Land Securities, Lloyds TSB, Logica Ltd, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London Business School, London College of Furniture, Lowick House Print Workshop, Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Mezzanine Management , Midland Bank plc, NW Securities Bank, Paintings in Hospitals, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Peterborough Art Gallery, PIC Europe, Poole Museums Service, Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight, RNLI, Royal West of England Academy, Robert Horne and Co Ltd, Russell-Cotes Arts Gallery and Museum, Standard Life, Schroder Investment, London, St Thomas’ Hospital, Sony Corporation, Sumitomo Bank, London, The Economist, The Hepworth Wakefield, The Open University, Tolman Cunard, Unilever plc, Victoria and Albert Museum, Vistakon, Ireland, Warwick Arts Trust, Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering, Wiltshire County Council, Winchester Health Authority, Winchester School of Art.
Literature:
1997: Publication of monograph of life and work of Martyn Brewster to accompany travelling retrospective and exhibition by Simon Olding, Foreword by Mel Gooding. Published by Scolar Press
2001: Re-inventing the Landscape – Contemporary painters in Dorset by Vivienne Light. Published by Canterton Books.
2008: Publication of Martyn Brewster – Prints 1975 – 2007 by Vivienne Light and Simon Olding. Published by Canterton Books.
Selected Awards:
1991 British Council Award to exhibit in USA
1995 Art Council, England, Development Grant
1996 The Robert Horne Printmaking Award
1997 The Printmaking Residency, Lowick House Print Workshop, Cumbria
1999 Research and Scholarship Award, Arts University, Bournemouth
Selected group exhibitions
1974 Stowells Trophy, Mall Galleries, London
1975 Oxford University Press, London
Brighton Printmakers, Gardner Art Centre Sussex
1983 Royal Festival Hall, London
1984 Warwick Arts Trust, London (Also 1986, 1988)
1985 Angela Flowers Gallery, London (Also 1991)
1985 Bede Gallery, Jarrow (Also 1989)
1986 Peterborough City Art Gallery – Visual Hire Scheme Tour
1987 Thumb Gallery, London (Also 1989, 1990)
369 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1988 ‘Romantic Visions’ Camden Arts Centre, London
London Group, 75th Anniversary Exhibition
1989 ‘Critics’ Choice’ Air Gallery, London
1990 ‘London to Atlanta’ Atlanta, USA (Thumb Gallery)
1991 Decouvertes, Paris, France (Jill George Gallery)
1992 ‘London to LA’ Venice, USA (Jill George Gallery)
1994 CAS Market, London (also 1996)
1996 Gallery Ellison Marshall, Bordeaux
1997 British International Miniature Print Exhibition (Also 1998)
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2001 Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada (two person)
2002 Bettles Gallery, Hampshire (Also 2006)
2003 New Gallery, Birmingham
2004 Dorset Painters, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Dorset
Red House Museum and Art Gallery, Christchurch, Dorset
2005 Print Studio Co-ordinates, Sherborne House, Dorset
2006 The Drawing Gallery, London
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Devon
2009 V&A Museum, London
2010 Drawing Gallery, Shropshire
2011 Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Wiltshire
2012 ‘The Original Print Show’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London
2017 – 2022 Sladers Yard, Dorset
2022 Group 7, North Wall Art Centre, Oxford
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