Paul Feiler (b. 1918)

Feiler's work has consistently been concerned with structure and space and the challenge of rendering his environment in pictorial terms. When he moved to Cornwall in the early 1950s, he joined a thriving community which had established itself as the centre of avant-garde British art in the post-war years.
His paintings from this decade present an abstraction drawn on external, natural sources and the paintings themselves are studies in dichotomy - light and shadow, space and solid forms, geometric shapes against organic forms.

The surface of Feilds with Sea, Cornwall itself becomes part of this duality; applied in layers with a palette knife in broad, thick impastoed blocks. The blues of the sky and greens of the land are juxtaposed with flashes of white and yellow, evoking the Cornish landscape and its unique light.