Southwell Artist Studios Open: Southwell Artspace Friday 17th October - Sunday 19th October

Prints from a number of drawings are available please contact me for further information
Framed prints range from £200
Mounted £100
Unframed or mounted £80

Between Friday 17th October and Sunday 19th October I will be showing work in my studio at Southwell Artspace, alongside work by other Artspace artists and artists from Southwell including Peter and Heather Cartwright, Stuart Parkinson and David Willets. Original works and prints will be for sale including charcoal drawings from the 'Ghosts in the Wilderness' exhibition and drawings from dance workshops at Redhill School in Nottingham performed by Nottingham Contemporary Dance Collective.

Drawing on location: 'Ghosts in the wilderness'

Photograph: Heavens Gate - Charcoal, from The Workhouse Museum - Ghosts in the Wilderness Exhibition. Sponsored by Coventry University and The National Trust.




Photograph: Gully - Charcoal, from The Workhouse Museum - Ghosts in the Wilderness Exhibition. Sponsored by Coventry University and The National Trust.

Prints from a number of drawings are available please contact me for further information
Framed prints range from £200
Mounted £100
Unframed or mounted £80

Discovering a slatemine - Charcoal 2007



Snowdon - Charcoal 2007



Black over Bill's Mother's - Charcoal 2006



Heavens Gate - Charcoal 2007



Gully - Charcoal 2008



Heavens Gate - Charcoal 2007 - The Workhouse Museum 'Ghosts in the Wilderness' exhibition 2008



Wind in the hills - Charcoal 2007



The path to Diphwys Casson - Charcoal 2008



Ghost - Vale of Ffestiniog - Charcoal 2006



Silver Lining - Charcoal 2007



A moment of Clarity - Charcoal 2007





Both the work on show at The Lanchester Gallery in Coventry, and the work that will be on show during the Southwell Open studios October 17th - October 19th, are the outcomes of a number of long walks across North Wales, North Yorkshire and The Pennines. The photographs show the drawings in development, both made on location and in the studio in Southwell, Notts.

The drawings are made with compressed charcoal, which is much blacker than willow charcoal. The material is pushed around the paper, smudged, brushed and rubbed away. Revealing images of photographic quality produced using gestural dynamic marks. Creating handmade special effects that reflect the unpredictability of weather and the natural beauty of nature and its changing conditions.

The images above are examples of some of the work on show in both these recent exhibitions.They were originally exhibited at The Workhouse Museum in Southwell, Nottingham in an exhibition curated by myself. The project was funded by Coventry University and The National Trust, and aimed to draw together to contrasting groups of people in the Southwell community from The Workhouse Museum and The Artspace Southwell.

Drawing Journeys: Exhibition photographs from the Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University

Sleepless night - John Burns


"Ghosts in the wilderness" exhibition book - Glyn Brewerton


Drawing Journeys at the Lanchester Gallery


Drawing Journeys at the Lanchester Gallery

Drawing Journeys: Drawings by Glyn Brewerton & John Burns at The Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University.

Between October 2nd and October 17th The Lanchester Gallery at Coventry University hosts drawings by Glyn Brewerton and John Burns. The drawings in this exhibition reflect observations of life, through drawing both aim to examine the act of remembering fleeting moments, tracing history and the documentation of arduous journeys and passages through time. Both Glyn Brewerton and John Burns demonstrate their individual approaches to reportage drawing, using malleable materials that can be altered and distressed to convey both the history of a drawing and an unfolding presence. Both are fascinated by additive and reductive approaches to drawing through adding and taking away of materials, seen as metaphors for absence and dissolving memories and modes of gesture and expression that photography cannot reproduce.

Both artists actively exhibit work nationally and internationally in exhibitions which have included the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007 and The Association of Illustrators Best of British Illustration Awards, and are artists and illustrators with experience as professional practitioners with a long pedigree of commercial and non-commercial clients. They represent the staff from Coventry University within Design and Visual Arts that work broadly across - Illustration and Fine Art & Illustration at undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. Both are aligned with the Creative Practice Research group.

Curated by Glyn Brewerton and funded by the Coventry University Creative practice Group.

Drawing Breath Exhibition: Lugar Do Desenho, Fundacao Julio Resende. Porto.

The Drawing Breath exhibition at Lugar Do Desenho, Fundacao Julio Resende in Porto, Portugal, showcases a range of approaches to drawing demonstrated by the work of staff members of Coventry University School of Art and design. Works by Ranald Sherriffs, Dutton & Swindells and Brigid Mcleer, are exemplars of the broad range reponses to drawing by staff across Fine Art and Illustration. The exhibition that opened in September ends on October 15th.

Image: Duet, Silkscreen by Glyn Brewerton, 2008