Roger Wells

Before he became a singer and songwriter in the late ‘70’s and ‘80’s, Roger was an art student at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Of that time he says, "I think I was too young to understand what I was trying to do with my visual work … which is why, when I left art school, my focus switched to the more facile satisfaction of drawing cartoons for various underground publications, and singing and writing songs with my band …”

After a successful ten years Roger left the music industry in the ‘90’s, and went into a period of review, spending a number of years practicing Vipassana meditation in monasteries throughout SE Asia
“… it was during this time that a core fascination began to form itself within me, an aesthetic principle that I needed to pursue, which could only be expressed visually. Trouble was, I got diverted into writing books, which took up the next couple of decades.”

During that time, Roger wrote two non-fiction books about meditation, and two novels, both of which were published – ‘Levin’s God’ and ‘Happy to Burn’.

“I had to get all the words and ideas out of my head so I could settle into the more intuitive process of making pictures …”

Since then he has focused on making drawings ... "each one leading th...

Bachelor of Arts Fine Art - Painting
RMIT - 1974