John Wells   1907-2000 

John Clayworth Spencer Wells (1907-2000) was an artist and maker of relief constructions, associated with the St Ives group.. Wells lived in Ditchling, Sussex until c.1921 and studied medicine at University College Hospital, London, 1925-30. Though his only formal artistic training was from night classes at St Martin's School of Art during 1927-8, he exhibited in the 'Daily Express' Young Artists Exhibition at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1927. During a visit to Cornwall in 1928 he studied briefly with Stanhope Forbes in Newlyn and was introduced to Ben and Winifred Nicholson and Christopher Wood.

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