della wells

As a child, Della made up stories and characters, many based on her mother's recollections of growing up in North Carolina during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Wells used these stories to escape the madness of her mother's mental illness and father's rage. Eventually, she used her parents to inspire the collage art she creates today. In 2010, a play about her life was written for a performance at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Her work was also included as an illustration for a book being published by National Geographic. Wells' work is exhibited in Europe and throughout the United States in folk art and outsider galleries from coast to coast.