Island Mountain Arts is very pleased to announce that the 'Wells Artists' Project' is to be renamed the 'Toni Onley Artists'' Project'. World renowned BC artist Toni Onley (1928-2004) very much embodies the spirit of the Wells Artists' Project. He had a great passion for going into remote areas in order to gain inspiration, he was also very savvy in the business of being a successful Canadian artist. In re-naming the project we hope to honor these aspects of of Toni's artistic career and spirit.

The renaming is the first step in a long term vision to develop an eight-month artist development program in Wells called the Toni Onley School where participating Artists will live and work in the remote hamlet of historic Wells in order to create a body of work for exhibition.