Michael Fell (1939–2023) was a British painter and printmaker. He worked with ordinary places—rooms, streets, cafés, stations and landscapes—and returned to them over time.
Across drawing, printmaking and paint, he rebuilt familiar settings through repeated looking. Fell’s pictures remind us that attention can be a form of care—for places, for people, for the everyday.
Works by Fell are held in public collections including the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the British Council Collection.
This site is a working archive maintained by the Michael Fell Estate. It invites you to look slowly, returning to works and places as Fell himself did.
Selected Highlights
Categories
Artistic practice, Chronology,
Biography & Selected Exhibitions
Collections, Estate,
Writings & Scholarship
WHERE TO BEGIN
General visitors
Start with Selected Highlights, then browse Categories.
Researchers and institutions
Begin with Collections, Writings & Scholarship and Estate.
If you have 5 minutes
Open Selected Highlights, then follow any Category that catches your eye.
About this site
How this working archive is organised, maintained, and updated by the Michael Fell Estate.
Image credits
Top: Robert at the Music House (1993)
Works (from left to right):
Painting at the Music House (1980–1989), Covent Garden – Early Morning (1968), My Pond (1990–1999)
Practice & Life: Desk in the studio, Barrère, Gers, 2023. Photograph © Lucy Dawkins
Estate & Research: Library in the studio, Barrère, Gers, 2023. Photograph © Lucy Dawkins