Felix Akul is an artist based in the United Kingdom whose works have been exhibited in England and Wales.
While his recent abstractions reflect the restlessness and "winds of change" in our society, he strives to remain optimistic and not lose sight of the joy and the essential beauty of our existential circumstances.
Inspired by color field painting, optical art, and figuration, Akulw's vivid pieces are created using acrylics on canvas.
After completing a Basic Course at Cardiff College of Art in 1972, Felix proceeded to lanchester poytechnic to study Fine Arts and obtained a Bachelor's degree with First Class Honors with Mention. From here, Felix advanced to the Royal College of Art de London and earned his master's degree in 1978.
During this period, he presented a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings in the Polytechnic Gallery de snack, while participating in group exhibitions at the Conway Hall Gallery and Courtauld Institute Gallery en London. At that time she also received the award Herbert Read Memorial of the Royal College of Art.
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From 1978 to 1986, Félix lived and worked as a professional artist in London with studies in Butlers Wharf, Beck Road and Acme Robinson Road Studios, while also spending periods of time in Cornwall, Pembrokshire and the Algarve painting and drawing landscapes and seascapes. Many of those works were exhibited in exhibitions Open studio en robinson road, mixed exhibitions in The Mask Gallery, Bermondsey, as well as important exhibitions in ShowroomGallery en Bethnal Green and Advanced Graphics Gallery on Tooley Street, London.
Upon his return to Wales in 1986, he continued to paint while later training as an art teacher, completing a PGSE in 1989 from the Institute of Education of Cardiff. After that, he pursued a long and productive career in a variety of schools, mainly Pontardulais Comprehensive School, where he worked as art director for more than twenty years until his retirement.
During this period, he continued to produce a variety of works in a variety of media and exhibited at the Open Art Exhibition de Wales in 1991 at the University of aberystwyth, while exhibiting at the Bro Delyn National Eisteddfod in the same year, where he developed a major mixed-media work under the title "Did you know that Lawrence of Arabia was Welsh?" in response to military conflicts in the Gulf and later on Iraq.
In this way, he developed an interest in the possibilities offered by rapidly developing computer digital technologies and began to investigate how electronic printing systems developed languages to describe variations in tonal values.
Such research culminated in an extensive series of digitally inspired portraits in a variety of media featuring a "hero" of Felix the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein exhibited for the first time at the Open Exhibition de Wales of 1992.
More digitally inspired portrait works were exhibited at the Fourth Oriel Mostyn Open as well as in the National Eisteddfod andn Builth Wells in 1993. Another substantial exhibition of his work was also exhibited at the Taliesin Arts Center to coincide with the Swansea Arts Festival screening of the biopic of Derek Jarmans de Ludwig Wittgenstein.
He was also invited to give a lecture on the emerging digital revolution in the visual arts at the National Eisteddfod in the 1994 Neath, where he exhibited a variety of works including responses to the Falklands conflict and featuring another "hero", Simon Westton.
Since his retirement, Félix has continued to work on a variety of media and genres.
His digitally inspired landscape and seascape work continued to be a feature of his oeuvre until more recently, when his creative forays into color and abstraction have seen the emergence of a substantial series of acrylic on canvas works.