"garden of delights":
triptych; mixed media on canvas; 90cm x 40cm; 2007
In part this painting was influenced by Hieronymus Bosch the fifteen century Dutch painter wikipedia.org_Boschb
but was to depict our contempory world of visual and musical delights.
Recent paintings from 2006 to 2008
"we sat outside the jazz club" diptych
acrylic and mixed media on canvas;
45.5cm x 71 cm; January 2008
We sat on the wall looking at the jazz club in Cadaqués and listened to the music.
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"the night Galileo danced on the moon":
mixed media on canvas; 46cm x 36cm; 2007
garden of delights series; "the dance ,,,"
acrylic and mixed media on canvas; 40cm x 30; December 2007
A great deal of my time is spent working with dancers. The photograph above was taken looking towards the jazz club in the Passeig in Cadaqués.
Garden of Delights series
(top) the night I danced with Catherine Deneuve: acrylic on canvas; 40 cm x 30 cm; 2007
(below) the little dancer;
mixed media on canvas; 2007
triptych: "for Rie and Max"
gold and mixed media on canvas; 2006
Recent paintings from July 2006
triptych: "Poppy and Max"
gold leaf and mixed media on canvas; 41cm x 92cm; 2006
right: Etheldreda series; "to fulfil her marriage duty ..."
acrylic and mixed media on canvas; 76cm x 61; 2007
The use of string in the paintings came from many years spent living my rivers and by the sea. Fishermen use string and stones in order to make simple weights and ropes are often coiled in interesting patterns on deck. The willow used in this painting is also, of course, associated with water.
The idea of anyone being 'bound', whether physically or psychologically I find unacceptable.
Arvon Wellen is a painter, printmaker and maker of artist’s books and films. His interest in the world of today is constantly informed by a variety of sources including traditional as well as the mythology of contemporary culture. He is inspired by the vitality of human relationships, which may be observed through traces and marks made by a variety of artefacts including photography.
He was born in 1944 in Dorset. He 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.
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 manuscript and printed books, in the London Museums. Visits to Italy extended his interest in Italian mediaeval and early Renaissance art. In Spain he developed an interest in Catalan Romanesque.
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
Awards
Royal College of Art Travel Award
Silver medal España 88 (1988)
Mini Print Internacional de Cadaqués award 1997
Exhibitions - mixed and group - col.lective
1988 - 89 Hunting Group, Mall Gallery, London (4 works shown in 1988)
1989 "The US - UK Print Connection", the Barbican, 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; Catalogue on CD
1998 ‘Digital Art and Music’, Cambridge University Music Department
2000 Ateneu de Cadaqués, 20th Anniversary exhibition of Galería Taller Fort
2002 Ateneu de Cadaqués, 10th Anniversary show
Solo exhibitions - individual
1994 Aoyama Minto-Ku Gallery, Tokyo
1997 Galería Taller Fort, Cadaqués, España
1998 Ateneu de Cadaqués, España
1999 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’, Centro Sophia, Palma de Mallorca
2002 Beau Monde, London
2007 Ely Cathedral, the Lady Chapel: Etheldreda in the Fen
publications / films
2001 Childrens' Books in English: contributor; Cambridge University Press,
2005 The Littleport Riots: Finca Films / Field Theatre Group / ADeC
2005 Spiritus; Finca Films / Lantern Dance Theatre Company
2006 A View from the Clocktower; one hour film; Finca Films / ADeC
2006 Ruslan & Lyudmila; Finca Films / Lantern Dance Theatre Company
2006 Anything Goes; Finca Films / Octagon Musical Theatre Company
2006 Spiritus II; Finca Films / Lantern Dance Theatre Company
2007 Tela; Lantern Dance Theatre Company / Finca films
2007 from Fenland to dry land / Finca Films / ADeC
2008 The Stone Flower; LDTC / Finca Films
Catalogues and other publications
1989 The US - UK Print Connection, Catalogue, The Barbican, London
1995 ArCade Digital Imaging; Catalogue on CD, Brighton University
1997 Galería Taller Fort, Cadaqués, España [Giclée prints], Cadaqués, Spain
2000: ART2000 Catalogue; the 12th London Contemporary Art Fair
1995/96/98/2000/01 the National Print Exhibition, the Mall Gallery, London
1987-2007 catalogues for Mini Print International
Perla mya cara; triptych;
mixed media and gold leaf on canvas; June 2007
drawing
ink on paper February 2007
pink lady
woodcut and digital print February 2007 paper size 18cm x 18cm
exhibited Cadaqués 2007
aphrodite
woodcut and digital print February 2007
paper size: 18 cm x 18 cm
aphrodite II
woodcut and digital print February 2007
paper size: 18 cm x 18 cm
Etheldreda series; "the Spirit of Prophecy"
mixed media on canvas
76 cm x 61cm, 2007
