Summer harbour

Paul Feiler has built up Summer harbour in layers, sandwiching fragments of sea view between slabs of gorgeously textured paint. In the 1950s, he was one of a group of abstract artists based in the seaside town of St Ives, Cornwall.

I have always enjoyed writing down with paint what I felt the world around me looked like ... This has led me to try to communicate a universal aspect of forms in space; where the scale of shapes to each other and their tonal relationship convey their physical nearness to the spectator, and where the overall colour and its texture supplies the emotional overtones of the personality of the ‘place’.