Comments on the works of Jas 
Jas Cyberspace features a main gallery, a site newsletter and something called
The Gallery Mraur that will either enthrall you or have you in tears of
laughter. Personally, I experienced both. James' site is striking and his art
work intriguing. Both make his Home Page well worth a tour, especially as an
insight into the artist's creative vision.
- Blair Dewan, Arts Alive, North Vancouver
"In the Web-in-its-strongest-element flle rests Jas Cyberspace, the personal Home Page of James Felter, a North Shore visual artist. James'
site is about getting the word out abut his work and talking about stuff he
likes. It's a lot like any good personal Web site, in this case the subject of
interest is visual art.
Jas' HomePage: "Great opening photo. Jas's works are fascinatingly different,
not only from other's works, but from themselves. There are "floor tiles" with
intricate geometric designs within designs within ... made solely from black
triangles and white triangles. Patterns keep emerging and changing after you've
stared awhile and lost focus. But the "artistamp" is glorious color and
ungeometric -- an island in the sea. I would never connect the two works as
being from the same mind. Naturally, that stamp is from "country" that is
also a bum link -- still under construction, so more of that artwork is
frustratingly unavailable. I'll be going back to look for it. Recommended."
- Philip Stripling, The Civilized Explorer, WWW Site
The cleansing perfection of geometry invoked in (his work) has found great
appeal to an
audience already attuned to sophisticated abstraction based on oriental
paradigms. Rarefied by economy of means they enable the artist to avoid
references to most current contemporary idioms. Playful illusions of
positive-negative relationships result in elastic qualities which only
sustained viewing can provide. When colour is employed it is with the
calculated care of a thread-counting weaver."
- Glen Allison, Four Canadian Artists, Catalogue Introduction 
"... Highly satisfying, extremely formal, somewhat hypnotic ... irrestible
echoes of the indigenous art not only of South America but also (for instance)
of South East Asia and the Pacific Northwest."
- Max Wyman, The Province, Vancouver
"... A precisely rendered world of maze images that challenges and compels . .
.a chanch to revise your definition of freedom by showing how freedom and
structure are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, they are mutually dependent."
- Carol M. Cram, Vie des Arts, Montreal"Careful design work that is saved from clinical coolness by the organic
quality of its visual rhythms and by the exotic references it makes ... a
lesson in the dividends that economy and
simplicity, intelligently used, can play.
- Susan Mertens, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver
" ... Exceptional by all means, quite new to Europe and difficult to classify
... a synthesis of the raw materials and experiences of the primitive peoples
(of the Amazon) through the logical ordering of his own feelings ...
(producing) a new existence, a new dimension, a kind of language beyond
emotional experience ... with a strong and monumental human feeling."
- Pierre Restany, Paris
"...You'll be mesmerized ... his strict discipline results in volatile,
suggestive work."
- Laura Busheikin, Vancouver Echo, Vancouver
