Jerwood Gallery opens first major retrospective since Paul Feiler`s death
(Artdaily.org)

Paul Feiler was one of the foremost figures of the Modern Art movement emanating from the South West of England, fascinated by the architecture of space and the ambiguities of visual experience. The British artist’s primary inspiration was the meditative landscape and unique light of Cornwall; his lyrical abstract works from the 1950s and 1960s relate to the natural forms he was surrounded by. From the late 1960s onwards Feiler’s work became more geometric, setting himself a series of technical parameters by which to work under and subsequently allowing for more creative freedom. He began creating thinly-glazed surfaces in which squares and circles gave a subtle interplay of projection and recession through gradations of tone. A sense of enclosure within his paintings was intended to evoke the sacred areas of classical temples, often incorporating gold or silver leaf dispersed between the quiet movement of