John Wells, Island Counterpoint, 1956John Wells initially practiced as a doctor on the Isles of Scilly but moved to Cornwall at the end of the Second World War to pursue a career as a painter. In 1946, Wells shared an exhibition with Winifred Nicholson at the celebrated Lefevre Gallery in London and became an assistant to Hepworth alongside Terry Frost in 1949. Wells often applied thinly washed, scraped and abraded layers of paint over a strongly textured ground, adding pencil over the