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Brewster's works were characterized by very thickly applied oil paint. The later works often employ thinner glazes of acrylic paint and collage elements.

Brewster received his undergraduate degree from Brighton Polytechnic where he studied under Dennis Creffield.

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His very early work was informed by his tuition and was both expressionistic and figurative, although his interest in abstract art was very apparent by the mid-1970s. After taking a post-graduate degree in print making, Brewster began exhibiting regularly in London and further afield.

His early influenced included the Abstract Expressionists but also abstract art from mainland Europe, particularly artists such as Nicolas de Staël and Serge Poliakoff. He retains a particular admiration for John Hoyland’s work and that of the St Ives School.

Brewster has had retrospective exhibitions at the Russell–Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, 1997; the Royal West of England Academy, 2001; and the