Felix Treadwell (b. 1992, Maidstone, United Kingdom) is a contemporary British artist currently living and working in Taipei. He received his BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Arts in 2015 and his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, in 2018. During his studies, he spent a formative year (2013–2014) as an exchange student and artist-in-residence at Kyoto Seika University in Japan, an experience that has had a lasting influence on his artistic practice.

Treadwell’s work merges Eastern and Western cultural influences, drawing particular inspiration from Japanese manga and anime of the 1990s, as well as traditional Japanese woodblock prints and carving techniques. His paintings are characterized by a tender, playful, and subtly surreal sensibility, often rendered in soft pastel tones and airbrushed gradients. He depicts wide-eyed, cartoon-like characters, animals, and fantastical creatures—such as his semi-autobiographical alter ego “Feelo”—caught in moments that oscillate between the mundane and the absurd, exploring themes of vulnerability, loneliness, and identity in adolescence. In recent years, Treadwell has shifted toward a more abstract painterly language, allowing the fluidity of paint and the interplay of color fields to construct imagery without relying on defined outlines.

As one of the most notable young artists of his generation, Treadwell received the HIX Award in 2014 and was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2017. His works have been exhibited internationally in cities such as London, New York, Tokyo, Taipei, and Hong Kong. He has held solo exhibitions at Union Gallery (London), L21 Gallery (Mallorca), Dopeness Art Lab (Taipei), and The Hole (New York), among others.