Friday 30 September - Saturday 29 October 2011
Preview & Award Ceremony Friday 30 September 7pm
Judging artist: Trevor Felcey
Trevor Felcey is a painter following in the traditions of European art. He paints landscapes, still-lifes and portraits, drawing and painting constantly, very often the two activities working in tandem. He makes exquisitely beautiful pencil studies of trees, and substantial paintings of individual trees which are more like portraits than landscapes. His still-lifes have the true vibration of the real, while his pictures of people include nudes and figure paintings as well as straight forward portraits. He is a versatile artist utterly dedicated to the pursuit of reality as envisioned in two-dimensions and translated into paint, ink, charcoal or graphite. He also makes prints, being an occasional but highly effective etcher, but his main activity is with the pencil and the brush.
Born in Ferring, Sussex, Felcey attended art school in Grimsby under Peter Todd, one of a number of conscientious objectors who, following the war, established themselves as teachers to an eager post-war generation. Camberwell followed, where Felcey rubbed shoulders with Maggie Hambling, Euan Uglow, Robert Medley and Frank Auerbach. Then to The Royal College where from 1966-69, with Kitaj and Hockney among an emerging group of enfant terrible, Felcey ‘came out of it a better painter, despite the teaching!’
‘Trevor Felcey is a realist painter of large integrity. His paintings are not dull transcriptions of appearances, but are deeply-felt statements about the world we live in, matchless evocations of things, people and places he finds beautiful. Felcey’s ideas are to do with visualizing- about ways of seeing. If they could be written, he’d be a writer. As it is, he’s one of our finest painters in the great tradition of Western art; conveying real emotion about visual events that stir him.’
Andrew Lambrith, writer and biographer of ‘Trevor Felcey, Nature’s Instantaneous Text‘
(ISBN 978-1-906690-17-5 Halstar Ltd)