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Landscript c.1959
Oil on board
Studio stamp verso
3 1/2 x 28 ins 9 x 71 cms

As he worked towards his first solo exhibition for the Waddington Galleries in 1960, Wells introduced a larger scale to his paintings, up to 24 x 58 ins for Landscape Evocation1959, by far the largest work he had produced. These were generally characterised by a looser more gestural technique that perhaps both indicate Wells’ awareness of the contemporary work of his colleagues in St Ives and the influence of his dealer urging him to make larger, more significant statements. Many of these paintings possess an elongated horizontal format, encouraging a linear narrative reading across the composition and attempting to capture the enormity of the experience of landscape within a single picture. The change in scale and technique brought with it uncertainties that led Wells to make, for the first time, provisional studies for the larger paintings, having abandoned his technique of scoring the backboard with lines based on systems of proportion such as the Golden Section. The urgency of production brought about by the deadline of the Waddington exhibition is evident in these loosely painted small scale studies.




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