Comments on: Interview with Alan Feltus

By: Elvio Lunghi

Elvio Lunghi — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 07:06:39 +0000

Bellissima intervista. I dipinti di Alan respirano l’aria incantata degli affreschi di Assisi e di Piero della Francesca ad Arezzo. È con radici profonde che si sale più in alto.

By: xue du

xue du — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 07:12:53 +0000

Special paintings, very wonderful dialogue

By: Robyn Gardner

Robyn Gardner — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 05:10:31 +0000

I had the pleasure of taking classes with Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin years ago at Montecastello di Vibio, at The International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture and this has had a lasting and life changing impact – their work, their intellectual rigour and another way to look at and think about painting, was unique in my experience. A privilege. Feltus’s quiet regard and compositional intelligence and erudition and Lani’s constant intellectual inquiry and discipline, that experience remains with me, and sustains me when the going gets lonely, here down under, in my studio. My desire for Italy never goes and the light and images of that peculiar time and lovely place, painting in Balthus Studio with its crumbling fireplace and dusty light fittings, and what I got from those two, as teachers and painters – and I know many others did too – was invaluable. I check up on them, on their work, routinely from this distant world down under and in another hemisphere, and there’s still a drawing of patient ‘Andreas naked’ on my studio wall and I still think of compositional logic in terms of some of their instructions, still now think its fine to take a year to do a painting and get rid of one figure, discovered Ingre and the Piero della Francescas in their footsteps and will always believe that you don’t just paint the light but the inner dark too. Wonderful interviews, again.
Robyn Gardner

By: Caren Canier

Caren Canier — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:03:52 +0000

great questions, great comments and most of all, great paintings! Compliments all around.

By: Sheila Anthony

Sheila Anthony — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:17:11 +0000

I became an instant FOF (fan of Feltus) when I saw one of his paintings in a neighbor’s apartment in the late 1990’s Nothing would do but that a Feltus would come to live with me. Now I have two works that I love very much. Thank you Alan for enriching my life.

By: Julyan Davis

Julyan Davis — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:49:47 +0000

Lovely interview, Larry. This was a delight. Feltus’ paintings have always been an inspiration. Thanks so much.