The visually stimulating ArtWalk will take place during the ArtsWells Festival at various locations throughout the town and will include all six of Wells’ galleries as well as local and visiting artists, artisans, and craftspeople.  The ArtWalk will be self-guided this year but there will be an exhibit opening on Saturday evening at the Wells Community Hall Banquet Room Foyer were there will be a group show displaying a piece by each featured artist.  All artists will be in attendance and will be available for a short artist talk and questioning.  We invite you to check out the works of these local, regional and international artists.

ArtsWells 2008 ArtWalk - Featured Artists
(In alphabetical order)

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. 

Ting Yuen: Ting is a self taught artist who has lived in five countries and travelled the world extensively.  Her rich experiences are reflected in the colourful, whimsical, and contemporary themes of her figurative acrylic paintings.  In addition to painting, Ting, along with her husband Paul Morel, creates beautiful jewellery.

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.

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. 

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:  Marie Nagel 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.

Gary Feigehen: Gary Fiegehen is one British Columbia’s foremost photographers.
Fiegehen 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.

Lindsay Read:  Lindsay lives in Wells, BC with her husband and two dogs.  In addition to working at Island Mountain Arts, she is a painter and pseudo seamstress.  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.

ArtWalk Venues