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2. Sea & Rocks – Scilly Isles c.1940
Watercolour on paper
Studio stamped
51/2 x 9 ins 14 x 22.75 cms

Wells took up the post of doctor on the Scilly Isles in 1936. He continued to paint in his spare time following evening classes at St Martin’s School of Art and his initial meeting with Ben and Winifred Nicholson and Christopher Wood in Feock, Cornwall in 1928. He read widely, subscribing to contemporary magazines such as Axis and Horizon, and his work of this period suggests an affinity with the biomorphic forms of Surrealism which he used in depictions of his marine environment. These two studies, never previously exhibited, explore the organic contours of his island existence.




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