John Welson began painting at the age of 12. He received a thorough education in painting, drawing, graphics, ceramics 
and attended two colleges of art.

He has participated in over 300 exhibitions in both private and public galleries around the world since the early 1970's.

From the late 1960's to the early 1990's he painted Figurative Surrealist Paintings, exhibiting with artists as diverse as Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Lucian Freud and Damian Hirst.

Since the mid 1990's he has produced Lyrical Abstracted Paintings inspired by the landscape of his native Wales.