Image: Martin Brooks, ‘Jago’
Martin Brooks: in the studio with the Devon based artist
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Even as I climb the steps into painter Martin Brooks’s Devon studio, I know I am in the presence of rare talent.
I see many types of extraordinary painting, but nothing fills me with envy and reverence more than an artist’s ability to capture the unique and vivid quality of other people on canvas. Truly I don’t know how it’s done – whether it is learned or is simply an extraordinary and instinctive gift.
Martin himself is friendly and understated, the kind of person who no doubt makes his sitters feel perfectly relaxed, and he chats about the portraits hung around his studio not as pictures, but as people.
Martin Brooks, The Floral works in Martin’s Devon studio
30 AUGUST 2023
By Mercedes Smith
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