Born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1918, Paul Feiler came to England in 1933, later attending the Slade School of Art alongside the likes of Patrick Heron, Adrian Heath and Bryan Wynter. Having been interned in Canada at the outbreak of the Second World War, Feiler returned to Britain in 1941 to pursue his professional artistic career. From this point onwards Feiler also spent extensive time teaching, including positions at the West of England College of Art in Bristol (appointed Head of Painting in 1960) and the St Ives Summer School, initiated by Terry Frost and Peter Lanyon. By the 1950s, the Germen- born painter was an established member of the young community of innovative artists in St Ives, which included Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Bryan Wynter, Terry Frost and Roger Hilton. Inspired by his external environment and the unusual colours and light of the Cornish coast, his work became increasingly abstract as his career progressed, and concentrated on the play of structure and space. Feiler’s unique cast, Relief (1957), is an extremely rare work in Feiler’s ouvre. The work is highly characteristic of the artist in its style, exploring interlocking forms and structures, however as a bronze relief and not a graphic work it is unparalleled in his career. Feiler was invited by architects Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall in 1957 to design a maquette for a proposed ceramic wall at Gatwick Airport. Although the wall never materialised, the original plaster maquette was cast as this unique bronze. Two Paul Feiler retrospective exhibitions have been held at Tate St Ives in 1995 and in 2004. His paintings are held in major public collections including at the V&A, and the Tate.