From the human truths, brutalist architecture and packed tube trains of 1970s London to the vineyards, Renaissance chteauxand riotous festivals of Gascon France, Michael Fell (1939 2023) chronicled the world he saw. His exuberant paintings and printsexplore the sadnesses, humour and joys of ordinary people in work combining technical freedom with visual wit, compassion and delight. Fells visions of city, town and landscape raise intriguing questions about the relationship between perception and feeling. Motifs and images of day to day life, captured with Fells fine draftsmanship, appear alongside literary, religious andaesthetic allusion.The Art of Michael Fell, edited by art historian Andrew Wilton, explores the artists life, work and influences, withperspectives from leading figures in the world of art criticism, painting and print making. This richly illustrated study will bringa new appreciation and understanding of the original, technically inventive and wide ranging oeuvre of a notably private artist.