Paul Feiler b.1918
Morning Harbour, Mousehole, 1954
oil on board
26 x 38 ins


Provenance
Redfern Gallery, London



Famously described by Dylan Thomas as ‘the prettiest village in England’, Mousehole retains the image of the classic Cornish fishing village of bygone days. Its tiny granite harbour surrounds a picturesque village of twisting alleys and passageways.
Paul Feiler was born in Frankfurt and came to England to be educated. He attended the Slade School of Art, but at the outbreak of war was interned in Canada. He returned to England in 1941 and taught at Radley and Eastbourne Colleges until the end of the war. In 1946 he joined the staff of the West of England College of Art at Bristol and became Head of Painting in 1963. He first visited Cornwall in 1949. In 1968 he received an Arts Council Award. In 1953 he bought a chapel at Kerris, Paul, near Penzance where he lives with his wife, the painter, Catharine Armitage. His studio at Paul was Stanhope Forbes's first studio in Cornwall.