Modern British Art, Contemporary British Art at Jonathan Clark Fine Art
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Untitled 1957-8
Oil on board
Signed, dated & inscribed verso
23 1/2 x 16 ins 60 x 40.75 cms
During the late 1950s Wells began a series of paintings exploring
sensations of landscape through weathered textures and colours,
dispensing with references to perspectival space and horizon lines.
He often developed textured backboards for his paintings over long
periods of time, sometimes years, placing them outside for the
elements to work on them. These heavily textured paintings derived
from his cliff studies in which he explored the rock faces as
evidence of the passing geological time. They evoke sensations of
the underlying structure of the landscape beneath its surface
appearance.
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