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Overview
Across Robert's work, familiar locations are approached from unexpected viewpoints, with an emphasis on structure, movement and the observed detail of everyday life.
Robert is a Yorkshire-born artist whose practice encompasses cityscapes, rural landscapes and figurative subjects. He studied at the University of East London before establishing an early career as an architectural illustrator and interior design artist, experience which continues to inform his compositional structure and spatial awareness. He now works as a full-time painter, dividing his time between travel, on-site sketching and studio-based work. He has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and with the New English Art Club in recent years, where his work has gained consistent recognition. In 2006, he received the President’s Choice Award at the Royal Society of British Artists, followed by the Daler-Rowney Painting Award in 2007. He is a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Oil and the Royal Society of British Artists, and a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers.
Working primarily in oils, often using a palette knife, he depicts urban scenes in London, Venice and Naples alongside harbour views and northern landscapes. His compositions are frequently developed from direct observation, with particular attention to light, atmosphere and shifting activity within the scene. His paintings of the Yorkshire Dales and Moors reflect an ongoing engagement with place.
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Works
Robert E. Wells
Chiara StudyOil on Panel23 x 23 cms / 9 x 9 inchesSigned 'R E Wells' (lower right)Further images
Description
Chiara presents a seated female figure positioned frontally within a shallow interior space. She wears a white dress patterned with small areas of exposed underpaint. Her head is slightly inclined, the features built up with dense, worked paint, while the surrounding background is structured through broad, layered passages of brown, grey and ochre. Paint is applied thickly and unevenly, with palette knife and brush marks remaining visible across the surface. The restricted palette is dominated by whites, muted earth tones and dark neutrals, allowing the figure to emerge through tonal contrast rather than detail. Wells painted Chiara as part of his ongoing engagement with the single figure, a subject through which he explores presence, stillness and the physicality of paint.
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