About this Show:

In Wells, you're hard pressed to find a home without a Marie Nagel painting on the walls. 

From August 20th to September 14th, 2026 Island Mountain Arts is hoping you will loan a small bit of your living space to our public Gallery for a very special showing of Marie Nagel's artwork - from your walls to ours! 

Please fill in all the following details and submit your Marie Nagel work for consideration no later than July 24th, 2026. We hope to accommodate as much work as we possibly can, but may be limited by the total wall space of the gallery. 

Click Here for the submission form

More about Marie (from Jeff Nagel)

Saskatchewan-born, Marie Nagel attended the Alberta College of Art in the 1960s, and had been a newspaper photographer, cartoonist and illustrator before heading the Prince George Art Gallery in the mid 1980s.
In the early 1990s, she moved to the tiny B.C. town of Wells, opened her own gallery and plunged into painting full time. She never looked back and became part of the fabric of the community, publishing a local newspaper in Wells for a decade.
Her Wells painting period from 1991-2007 was marked by vibrant semi-abstract acrylics on canvas, often depicting the mountains, forests and collapsing old buildings of the Cariboo landscape. The bold colours and brush strokes were a major departure from her watercolours of the 1980s.

In 2007, she moved to Victoria, where seascapes and driftwood became frequent subjects. She passed away in December of 2025.