Related Forms VIII, 1966
Oil on board
Signed, dated and titled on the verso.

By the mid 1960’s Feiler’s connection with landscape all but disappears to be replaced by a still thickly painted abstract ‘field’ or ‘ground’ of often cream or white paint embedded with circles, verticals, wedges, arcs or other geometrical fragments.

Feiler had previously made studies of springs, pulleys and other mechanical forms and these informed paintings like the ‘Related Forms’ series.

The axiomatically titled ‘Related Forms VIII’ is just that - a series of remnants and fragments from the observed environment that structure the surface in a powerfully interacting way. Further stylisation would follow with the ‘Orbis’ canvases of the later 1960’s, a series whose harder, more defined geometry, comprising mainly circles and verticals , related to Feiler’s interests in astronomy and space travel and exploration. Later still with the diminishing squares of the 1970’s Adutum and Ambit series, Feiler’s by then hard-edge language suggestive of shrines directly addresses transcendental interests.
30.5 x 30.5 cm (12 x 12 inches)

Provenance:
Private Collection, UK
POA