Born in 1966 in Groveland, Massachusetts, Nowell showed an interest in art early in life. He began drawing lessons with Robert Scott Jackson at the age of ten. Then after high school he sought out Boston School artist Paul Ingbretson. Ingbretson gave him the kind of academic training that has passed down from French 19th century painters such as Jacques-Louis David, Edgar Degas and Jean-Leon Gerome. After four years of these classical studies Nowell spent a summer with New Hampshire still life artist Sidney Willis who imparted a more contemporary outlook toward color and composition.

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