This site is dedicated to the paintings, book arts; prints and photographs of the contemporary artist Arvon Wellen. This page is also the gateway to three other sites including the Aragó Press and the Bookarts sites which are primarily concerned with information about artists' books, book art, and livres d'art.

the Aragó Press

the Aragó Press

THE ARAGÓ PRESS site explores the background to hand made experimental books as well as traditional book printing techniques and processes.

ARVON WELLEN: dream - fragment:
acrylic on canvas and wood; 92cm x 61cm; 2010

ARVON WELLEN: Lips; multi-layered digital print 2001; paper size 56 x 76 cm

ARVON WELLEN: Youth Dance England; photographed at the Peacock Theatre, London 2008

Images on this page copyright © Arvon Wellen 2010

ARVON WELLEN is a painter who works with photography for research and as a means of integrating images into his paintings and prints. He is also a printmaker who makes books using digital and photographic techniques as well as more traditional methods.

He is particularly interested in how we imagine ourselves, whether it is through magazine photographs or the cinema. Painting is for him a way of examining both the surface features of life but also life that exists beneath the surface. He is prepared to accept his own inability to understand a world of chaos and is inspired by the way that we create notional appearances. As part of this process he is interested in the psychological effects of colour.

An eclectic artist he has been influenced particularly by African art; Mughal painting; Medieval book illustration and sculpture; Catalan Romanesque art; Early Renaissance painting and sculpture. He is also interested in the theatre and dance and in the way these art forms present ideas.

Donna:
acrylic and mixed media on canvas; 100cm x 90cm; 2010