After studying sculpture at the South Kensington School of Art and ceramics at Camberwell, Reginald Wells married Clarissa Rawlings in London in 1899 and then the couple moved to the county of Kent, near Wrotham.
Wells established the Coldrum Pottery in Kent and in 1909 moved the business to Chelsea, London.
His business venture built, in Kent and Sussex,[2] almost 200 cottages, intended as weekend retreats for artistic people or proto-hippies who wanted to occasionally experience a rustic existence.
His interests lay in English slipwares and Chinese stonewares anticipating the concerns of later studio potters, such as Bernard Leach and William Staite Murray.
In 1938 in London, Wells married Resca Ospovat, whose orthodox Jewish parents with a number of children immigrated to Manchester from Dvinsk around 1891.