2008 ArtsWells ArtWalk

Amazing Space Gallery - Proprietors Claire Kujundzic and Bill Horne

Proprietors Claire Kujundzic and Bill Horne: Bill Horne and Claire Kujundzic have converted this 1930’s Catholic Church into a studio, gallery and home. Bill uses new technology as well as traditional printmaking to create imagery of the Wells area. Claire is a painter and printmaker known across Canada for her art and graphic design work. Her new work, provoked by the pine beetle epidemic, explores abstraction and prehistoric imagery. Open 2 - 6 pm daily in the summer, or by appointment. (For personal bios and photos of work please see their website.)

Caroline Anders

Caroline hails from Ontario and ventured to the Bowron Lake four years ago, now calling Wells home. She has been painting with oil colours for several years and takes inspiration from people, colours and Wells, with the goal of invoking emotions in her viewers. pageanders@hotmail.com

Art Rush Gallery - Proprietors Ting Yuen and Paul Morel

This enticing new gallery brightens up the small mountain village of Wells, British Columbia. Ting Yuen and her husband Paul Morel have created a chic and colorful gallery filled with whimsical figurative paintings by Ting. A collection of ‘Exprime- Toi’ modern jewelry created by the couple, complemented by local designer handbags and a conglomerate of art gifts.
Hours of operation: mid May to mid October Thursday - Tuesday 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. July and August 10:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. Daily www.artrushgallery.com

Beck’s Pottery - Proprietor Joan Beck

Joan Beck began taking pottery courses in 1964 and later attended Pottery School in Vancouver and eventually made her way to Williams Lake. Following years found her attending many workshops and doing extensive work with the medium, both hand-built and wheel-thrown. Joan operates her summer gallery in Wells. www.beckspottery.com

Marguerite Bromley

Marguerite Bromley is a Montreal textile artist, working on large-scale sculptural installations. She holds a BFA from Concordia University. Marguerite has work at XS Labs for the past four years creating textile and electronic art. She has exhibited throughout North America and cast a bit of textiles art into everyday life.

Sonia Cornwall (1919 - 2006)

For the majority of her life Sonia lived and worked on the historic Onward Ranch at 150 Mile House. A prolific painter and rancher, she and her husband were inducted into the cowboy hall of fame in 2005. A selection of her paintings will be displayed at the IMA Gallery.

Corey Hardeman

My paintings explore my ideas about population, regeneration and speciation. By experimenting with elements of shape and texture, I attempt to convey an idea of the nature of my subjects, as they relate to one another and to our own ideas of other species. I am interested in the interaction of animals as ideas, and in what they can tell us about our own relationships with one another and with our planet.
I endeavour to combine traditional painting techniques with personal ideas about biology, human nature, and our attitudes toward the earth. I am inspired by my background in the sciences, and by my own relationships with the animals and people with whom I share my life and home. I try to give each of my subjects an individual identity, even as they combine to create larger and more complex forms.

Chris Harris

Chris Harris is a freelance and adventure photographer whose stock photography has been enjoyed in books, calendars and magazines, including National Geographic and Canadian Geographic. His work, which shows a deep passion for the natural life of the Cariboo-Chilcotin can be seen online and at his straw-bale gallery at 105 Mile Ranch.

Beth Holden

After graduating with a BFA from Concordia University, Beth left Montreal for Wells. The artistic community and surrounding mountains keep her interest in the location and inspire her work. Her current work focuses on glass and its ability to mimic nature�s relationship with sunlight. Beth was Artistic Director of IMA for 3 years, and co-founded several events, including ArtMatters at Concordia and ArtsWells

Rev. Mary Fourchalk

In addition to serving as Reverend at the Wells Community Church, Mary is a self taught artist who paints mainly from inspiration. She works in several mediums including pastel, watercolour and acrylic.

Homespun Gallery - Proprietors Gail and Ron Dunn

Gail moved to Wells one year ago with her husband Ron to open the Homespun Gallery on Pooley Street. She works in clay to create sculptural stylized forms as well as burnished smoked pottery, Raku, and Tree Spirits but still has time to explore all mediums in painting and drawing.
Ron is an internationally recognized wood turner who is represented by galleries in BC and Alberta. Ron has won awards in every competition he entered. His creations are mainly from local wood which he enjoys collecting. After logging for many years he says that creating beautiful objects from wood is payback.

Marie Nagel Gallery - Proprietor Gary Feigehen and Sara Whitney

Gary Feigehen

Gary Fiegehen is one British Columbia’s foremost photographers. Fiegehen studied photography at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. He has worked in China and the Soviet Union, and his photographs have appeared in Equinox, Harrowsmith, Borealis and Beautiful British Columbia magazines. He contributed the photographs for the coffee table book Nisga’a which received a B.C. Book Prize in 1994.

Sara Whitney

Sara is an emerging artist creating oil paintings of remote landscapes. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the University of Victoria. Sara supports herself as a freelance graphic designer and assists with teaching art to children from preschool age to teens at Arts Umbrella on Granville Island.

Marie Nagel

Marie hails from the Prairies. She attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary in the sixties for a couple of years, but is otherwise self-taught. She takes inspiration from the shapes, colours and textures of her surroundings, and her work is characterized by strong brush strokes and vivid use of colour.

Lindsay Read

Lindsay lives in Wells, BC with her husband and two dogs. She is currently working on a series of paintings of the Bowron Lakes which will be exhibited in the summer of 2009, some of which are included in the ArtWalk.

Paula Scott

Paula is mainly self taught and credits the BC Festival of the Arts and Island Mountain Art workshops for much of her development as an artist. Her work is mainly autobiographical; memories, feelings and muses of the world from her perspective meant to provoke thought.

Laura Tosh

Laura Tosh lives in Victoria, BC where she attends Victoria College of Art. In her paintings she juxtaposes objects together to create works with an altered meaning and express and explore the fascinating framework of the way things fit together, using images to form emotional landscapes.

Catherine Wetmore

Painting mainly landscapes, Catherine continually discovers ways to express the mystical beauty of the natural world. She supports ecological concepts that educate for a cleaner world. Catherine has had exhibits at BC Art Exhibitions such as the Richmond Art Gallery, Artists Gallery in Vancouver, Vernon Art Gallery, Kaslo and more.