[2] In 1933 she moved to London to study at the Leon Underwood's Brook Green School.
The couple lived in Chicago for several years during which time Wells studied at the city's Art Institute.
[2] During her career Wells exhibited at the Royal Academy and with the Society of Wood Engravers and became an honorary member of the latter in 1995.
[2] She lived in Suffolk for the last two decades of her life and continued working until her death at Sibton.
[1] Prints by Wells are held in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and in the British Government Art Collection.