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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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