biography: newspaper and magazine articles
The Times, London (September 1971)
Sur (España) 6th May 1988
El Punt (España) 26th June 1997
El Punt (España) 11 September 1998
Diari de Girona, (España) 11th September 1998
Emporda (España) 8 th September 1998
Hora Nova (España) 15th September 1998
Hora Nova (España) 29th August 2000
Emporda (España) 29th August 2000
Diari de Girona (España) 2nd September 2000
El Punt (España) 25th August 2000
Emporda August 2013
Hora Nova (España) 2013
Bon Art: 2013
Emporda July 2016
la Voz de Galicia 2017
el Correo Gallego 2017

Awards
Royal College of Art Travel Award
Silver medal España 88 (1988)
Mini Print Internacional de Cadaqués award 1997
VIII Premio Atlante de Grabado 2017

Exhibitions - selected mixed and group - col.lective
1986 Lion Yard, Cambridge
1987 - 2016 Mini Print de Cadaqués
1988 España 88, Malaga
1988 The Old Fire Engine House, Ely
1988 “Drawn to Print” Swiss Cottage Library, London
1988 “Artists’ Prints” Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
1988 Hunting Group, Mall Gallery, London (4 paintings)
1989 Hunting Group, Mall Gallery, London
1989 Camden Arts Centre, London
1989 "The US - UK Print Connection", the Barbican, London
1989 The Modern Print Gallery, Derbyshire;
1989 Derby City Hospital, Derby
1991 “Contemporary British Prints” Scarborough
1991 Museum of Archeology, Valetta, Malta
1991 Drew Gallery, Canterbury
1992 Royal National Theatre, London
1992 The Argile Gallery, London
1994 Musée Roy Adzak, Paris
1995/96/98/2000/01 the National Print Exhibition, the Mall Gallery, London
1995 ArCade Digital Imaging; Brighton University, touring exhibition
1995 Guildhall University, London
1995 Newcastle College
1995 Wakefield College of Art
1995 University of Central Lancashire
1995 The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
1995 Seoul Art Centre, Republic of Korea
1996 Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
1996 Brighton Polytechnic Gallery, Brighton
1996 Ramsgate Art Gallery, Ramsgate
1998 Atrium gallery, Whiteley's, London
1998 ‘Digital Art and Music’, Cambridge University Music Department
1999 Affordable Art Fair,
2000 Ateneu de Cadaqués, 20th Anniversary exhibition of Galería Taller Fort
2002 Ateneu de Cadaqués, 10th Anniversary show
2009 l'étangd'art; Bages, France
2009 Fundació Tharrats d'Art Gràfic; Pineda de Mar, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Artist's book; Sunderland
2011 Artist's book; Derbyshire Literary Festival
2012 Artist's book; Bristol University
2012 Pyramid Book Arts Fair; Washington DC
2012 Creative Cohesion, Sunderland
2012 Sunderland Museum
2012 McGuiness Gallery, Bishop Aukland
2013 Edinburgh Book Week; Ocean Terminal
2013 Els artistes amb l'educació; l'Amistat, Cadaqués
2014 Els artistes amb l'educació; l'Amistat, Cadaqués
2014 Record' Art de Cadaqués; Patrick Domkin Gallery, Cadaqués
2014 The Riverside Gallery, Richmond
2015 St Bride Foundation, London
2015 We Love Your Books, de Montfort University, Leicester
2016 Dot Dash, de Montfort University, Leicester
2016 Gordon Russell Museum, Worcestershire
2016 Museo de Artes-Ribiera, Galicia, España
2016 Bodleian Library, Oxford
2017 Concentr•art, L'Amistat, Cadaques

Solo exhibitions - individual
1994 Aoyama Minto-Ku Gallery, Tokyo
1997 Galería Taller Fort, Cadaqués, España
1998 Ateneu de Cadaqués, España
1998 ‘Digital Art and Music’, Cambridge University Music Department
with Roberta Booth and Ardrew Aarons
1999 represented by Whitford Fine Art, Duke Street, London
2000 ‘Encounters not Relationships’ Coningsby Gallery, London W1
2000 ART2000 Exhibiting Artist - represented by Whitford Fine Art,
London
2000 ‘Encounters’ Salon l’Amistat Cadaqués, España
2001 ‘From Ramon Llull to Bill Gates’, Palma de Mallorca
2002 Galeria Weingartz, Mayen, Germany
2002 Beau Monde, London
2007 Ely Cathedral, the Lady Chapel: Etheldreda in the Fen
2009 Derby Festival
2013 Fragments i Ombres; L'Amistat, Cadaques
2016 L'ermita Sant Baldiri, Cadaqués

collections
la Biblioteca Nacional de Cataluña, Barcelona
Museo de Artes-Ribiera, Galicia, España
Museo de Cadaqués
L'Amistat Cadaqués
Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK

Awards

Royal College of Art Travel Award
Silver medal España 88 (1988)
Mini Print Internacional de Cadaqués award 1996
VIII Premio Atlante de Grabado 2017
Excellence prize Awagami International Mini-Print 2017

publications
2001 Childrens' Books in English: contributor; Cambridge University Press,
2011 Bede and the Shipbuilder's wife, Aragó Press
2011 Dans la Maison Familiale, Noele Rose, Cedric Monzali, Aragó
2012 From Hetton to Sunderland, Aragó Press
2013 She, Noele Rose, Aragó Press
2014 Rush to Encounters, Noele Rose, Aragó Press
2014 As I hung from a Rock, Aragó Press
2014 Courtyard, A.E.Jordan, Aragó Press
2015 Ebb and Flow, Aragó Press
2015 Brigid sat by the fire; Aragó Press
2016 Parenthsis 30, contributor
2017 Parenthesis 33, contributor
2017 Intersect / intersecar, artist's book in box; Aragó Press

films / peliculas
2005 The Littleport Riots: Field Theatre Group / ADeC
2006 A View from the Clocktower; one hour documentary film; Arts Council England; ADeC
2007 from Fenland to dry land Arts Council England; ADeC
2008 The Stone Flower; Lantern Dance Theatre Company
2008 6 films for Youth Dance England: National Youth Dance Festival; the Peacock Theatre; London; The Purcell Room, South Bank, London
2008 Spiritus IV; Lantern Dance Theatre Company
2009 Spiritus V; Lantern Dance Theatre Company
2009 U Dance; Youth Dance England; the Mermaid Theatre
2009 Young Creatives 2009; Youth Dance England; Covent Garden, London.

Arvon Wellen

He was born in the UK and studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art, Leicester Polytechnic (now de Montfort University), London University and the Royal College of Art. He has taught in London at Chelsea School of Art, at Maidstone College of Art and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Where he specialized in both printmaking and the artist's book.
His formative years were influenced by visits to the Pitt Rivers ethnological collection where he was influenced by African art. Later he developed a passion for manuscripts, Japanese prints and printed books in the British Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Visits to Italy extended his interest in Italian medieval and early Renaissance art. In Spain he developed an interest in Catalan Romanesque painting.
As a result of the influence of Rigby Graham in Leicester he has continued to make books either as an individual or as a collaboration with poets and writers.
More recently photography as well as his work with dancers and his interest in the theatre has inspired many of his prints and paintings. He has also made several heritage films.