My friend Douglas Jeal, who has died aged 71, was a talented sculptor whose varied and prolific work was very much in the tradition of European modernism: welded and cut steel, stone carvings and assemblages, fired or cast pieces, some delicately figurative, and always many wall and shelf pieces in folded and cut acrylic, full of light and colour.
His work is represented in some public and many private collections across Europe and US, and he had many mixed and solo exhibitions, most recently in Poland and in Cambridge. But he was also an excellent teacher, and head of sculpture at universities in Britain and the US.
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