MORE WORK BY DORIAN WELLS

In 2008 Dorian was commissioned to paint a race car for the San Francisco soapbox derby sponsored by Red Bull. This was the second Red Bull event Dorian was invited to participate in, the first being the group show at the Sugar Factory in Manhattan. 

DORIAN SEBASTIAN WELLS aka DOR 1

Paintings, collages and sculpture retrospective.

THE 2006 PRAGUE PAINTINGS AND PASTELS

Prague is a city for artists. Inspiration is everywhere, from the architecture and sculpture down to the iron gates, fences and cobblestone patterns in the streets. Baroque, Expressionism, Cubism, Jugendstil, Functionalism. The city is a treasure trove of art. These are a few of my works from 2006 inspired by my beloved Prague.

PAINTINGS BY CHERYL ERNST WELLS

When I can't write I paint.

TOTALLY UNRELATED

You know when you've done something wrong that one way or another you'll suffer the consequences, right?  So if we know this as an individual, do we also know it as a nation? It occurs to me that the mess our nation even the world is in is the consequence of our collective misdeeds. Didn't we all get greedy somewhere along the way in the last ten years?

 

Two days ago I went shopping at Sam's Club and spent a chunk of money stocking up for just the two of us. There was a young boy and his little sister trying to buy eggs with a stack of quarters and they looked poor and hungry to me.  You can't shop at Sam's without a club card and the kids didn't have one so we worked it out with the cashier to let them use ours. I wouldn't take the change they offered for the eggs, they both thanked me and we parted ways. As my husband loaded the boxes of food we had just bought into the trunk of our car I began to cry. I've been poor before but it's been years ago and I was an adult not a kid.

Maybe the kids weren't poor, maybe they weren't hungry. Maybe I just imagined they were but I realized then that there are poor, hungry kids all around me and I haven't seen them. I haven't felt them but I feel them now. Question is, what am I going to do about it? If I feel them, isn't it my responsibility to do something? If the economic meltdown, the housing collapse, jobs and IRA's lost seems totally unrelated to hungry kids, then our elected officials,  all of us as a nation, as a world have a lot to answer for.

A FAMILY TRADITION

My husband Paul, our son Dorian and I are all painters. 

PAINTINGS BY CHERYL ERNST WELLS

These 12 x 12 acrylic paintings are a few from a series of thirteen inspired by cities around the world.