Image: George Thornton Art, Nottingham
George Thornton Art has used its latest email newsletter to highlight a monochrome-focused selection by Kate Brinkworth, centring the conversation on the visual appeal of black, white and grey. The message frames the artist’s work through the long-running attraction of monochrome, pairing that theme with a reference image titled ‘The Milliner’s Workshop’ by Pablo Picasso and a short introduction to Brinkworth’s own paintings.
The email presents Brinkworth as an artist whose practice is built on extreme attention to surface, reflection and detail. It says she is known for “incredibly realistic paintings” and that, in the monochrome collection being promoted, she uses shades of black, white and grey to emphasise highlights, reflections and subtle details. The newsletter’s framing suggests that, without colour competing for attention, viewers are encouraged to look closely at form and texture.
A linked artwork page on George Thornton Art provides more specific information about Brinkworth’s process. For ‘Dial ‘N’ for Night’, the gallery describes her technical practice as staging carefully lit still-life compositions, photographing them with varied focus and angles, and then translating them into highly detailed, photorealistic oil paintings. The page also notes that Brinkworth trained at Nottingham Trent University, completed her studies in 2000 and began exhibiting soon after, with a first major solo show in 2001 at Britart Gallery in London.
The same gallery page situates Brinkworth’s work within a wider set of influences and methods. It says her paintings are informed by camera angles, manipulation of focus and the language of film and photography. It also states that her work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK and North America. The gallery describes her imagery as suggestive of a place and time, with blurred areas left “subtly alluring” so that viewers can create their own stories based on personal interpretation.
The newsletter features two Brinkworth works: ‘Dial ‘N’ for Night’ and ‘The Queen of the Night’. Both are listed on the George Thornton Art website as original oil-on-board works. The pages give each work a price of £3,400 and mark both as available. ‘Dial ‘N’ for Night’ is listed under Contemporary, while ‘The Queen of the Night’ appears under Affordable Art.
In its brief editorial note, the newsletter describes Brinkworth’s collection as both “classic and refreshingly modern,” a formulation that ties the artist’s method to the larger appeal of monochrome. The email does not announce an exhibition or a timed event; instead, it functions as a sales and viewing feature around the artworks currently listed by the gallery. The gallery’s Nottingham contact details are included on the artwork pages for arranging a personal home viewing before purchase.
