Tag: Frank Fidler

London-born Frank Fidler was a self-taught artist working in oils, pastel, watercolour and ceramics. He began painting full time in 1954 when the influence of Abstract Expressionism and action painting was just spreading to Britain. It was around then that a chance meeting with Jackson Pollock was to have a lasting effect on him. In 1957 he took part in his first major exhibition in Moscow and the following year he was included in the Paris exhibition “Towards the Future”. Through the early 1960s he exhibited in London with the Free Painter’s Group and at the Ben Uri Gallery. An interest in ceramics from the mid-60s led to a number of public commissions, including two ceramic murals for St. Albans Civic Centre. At around the same time he became friendly with the sculptor Henry Moore. This friendship continued until Moore’s death in 1986 by which time Fidler had abandoned abstraction and begun to record the landscape around his home in pastels, watercolour and pencil.