Yankel Feather (21 June 1920 – 18 April 2009)[2] was a British painter, and a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts and the Newlyn Society of Artists.

His subject matter included still lifes, populated scenes of Liverpool dance halls, and seascapes of his St Ives period.

"[citation needed] He acquired his artistic techniques though observation of works of the great masters, such as Velasquez, Rembrandt and Degas, in public galleries in Liverpool and London.

He took studios at Park Walk in Chelsea in the Forties and became part of the artistic bohemian fringe whilst working as a telephone operator.

During the time when Merseybeat hit the world his friends were Brian Epstein, The Beatles, Cilla Black, Adrian Henri, Arthur Ballard, George Jardine and many more.

Inspired by Lowry, whom he met at the Walker Art Gallery and visited at Mottram during the mid-1960s, Feather contrived from memory evocations of his working-class roots.

His later pictures of boys playing football on dockside waste land or of the vast edifices on the Mersey front, shared the documentary nostalgia of Lowry's mills and terraced streets.

His early years during the Mersey Beat days in Liverpool, depict rhythmical colourful movement in crowded dancehalls at a time when he was a club owner.

Inspired by the atmosphere in his Basement Club in Liverpool (set up by Feather in 1958) he painted every aspect of dance: from the Twist during World War II to Rock 'n' Roll, to decades of ballet shows.

Feather's paintings also explore Cornish landscapes and seascapes, market scenes from Morocco and views of a crowded Brighton beach.

In contrast to the vibrant dancehall works, Yankel's seascapes, painted prolifically during his time in St Ives, are full of brooding atmosphere.