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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
Beach, CornwallOil on Canvas20.3 x 20.3 cms / 8 x 8 inchesSigned 'R E Wells' (lower right)Further images
Description
Robert E. Wells is a Yorkshire-born artist whose work encompasses urban cityscapes, rural landscapes and figurative studies. Wells frequently returns to coastal locations such as Cornwall in his work, capturing the distinctive light, atmospheric shift and human presence of British shorelines through a restrained, layered palette and a practice built on direct observation as well as studio refinement. His paintings of Cornish beaches, surf and shoreline figures are part of this wider engagement with place, mood and the lived experience of landscape rather than literal topography. Working mainly in oils with a palette knife, his renderings convey all of the hustle and bustle of life whilst simultaneously conveying a sense of majesty and mystery.
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