William Feaver, The Spinney, Pignano, 2017, Courtesy of Artist and YveYang Gallery
William Feaver, The Duke of Hereford’s Knob, Capel-y-Fynn, 2000, Courtesy of the Artist and YveYang Gallery
William Feaver, Dead Vole, 2018, Courtesy of the Artist and YveYang Gallery
YveYand Gallery presents a focused installation of paintings by William Feaver that approaches landscape as a form of portraiture. Developed through years of returning to the same terrains—particularly the hills and valleys of Northumberland—these works accumulate through repeated observation and layered marks. Rather than depicting scenery, Feaver maps the slow formation of place, where weather, memory, and geological time converge.
William Feaver (b. 1942, England) is a British painter, critic, curator, and author. Alongside a five-decade career as Chief Art Critic of The Observer and a leading voice on artists such as Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach, he has maintained a lifelong painting practice, creating plein air landscapes of northeast England.