| Biography
Sculptor, painter and latterly printmaker. Born in Siverdale, Straffordshire. Although Wells studied under Jack Clarkson, an associate of Henry Moore at the Newcastle-under-Lyme School of Art, he learned much initially in the potteries of Stroke-on-Trent. At the Josiah Wedgewood works, he made moulds in a studio next to that of the artist Arnold Machin. Wells moved to London in the 1950s and helped decorate the Troubador Club, Earls Court, where Bob Dylan and other notable Folk singers played and where the magazine Private Eye was originally produced. Wells first solo appearance was at the AIA Gallery in 1962, and during the 1960s he showed in numerous London exhibitions, including the Drian Gallery. Wells also exhibited at the Arts Council; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, in America, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; at Beaux Arts, Bath; and regularly with the Free Painters and Sculptors as a member. Between 1992-7, Wells lived and worked in Crete. In 1999 and 2003 he showed at The Harlequin Gallery, which maintained a stock of his work. Works in bronze, plaster and stone is represented in numerous public and private collections in Britain, on the continent, in America and Australia. |
