Biography

Donald Wells 1929 - 2014, sculptor, painter and latterly print-maker, was born in Silverdale, Staffordshire in 1929.

He studied at Newcastle under Lyme school of Art, where Jack Clarkson, an associate of Henry Moore, taught him.

From around 1960 he based himself permanently in London, holding his first solo exhibition at the Artists' International Association gallery (AIA) in 1962. During the 1960s his work appeared in numerous exhibitions in London, including the Drian Gallery, with which he was associated for many years, eventually becoming Assistant Director.

He exhibited at many venues in the UK, including  the Beaux Arts in Bath, the Nelson Gallery Greenwich, the Harlequin Gallery, the Arts Council and the Katherine House Gallery, Marlborough.

Internationally his work has been widely recognised, and has appeared in the Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh, the MOMA Warsaw, and notably in galleries in Crete during the '90s, where he spent much time, and was influenced by classical Cycladic Greek models, which led him to further refine and define, the forms of his sculpture.

His choice of different media over the years, be these paint, aluminium relief, stone, bronze wood or prints, represents, never rupture, but growth and development. He leaves us with a visual and spatial world whose eras constantly reference one another, expressing as they do his great themes, notably his feeling for nature and for the human form.