Terrill Welch

Landscape painters, like the rest of us, yearn to freely travel again. There is something about discovering a new stream, stretch of beach or an alley in a centuries old city that will always easily spark inspiration. Right now, these adventures are on hold, even though the desire to explore is stro

A little less than a foot of snow blanked the southwest coast and our small island this past few days. Early blooming spring flowers withered as temperatures dropped below freezing. Still, the art shows must go on and we take you between the waves of past and present in this issue, beginning with a

The gallery has been plagued with a vexing problem for years and we have just found a great solution. One of the biggest challenges of showing artwork online is determining its scale or size in relation to other aspect of a room you might like the painting to reside. We have already tried a differen

January on the southwest coast of Canada can leave the small Gulf Islands with long nights, high winds and power outages. It is not a matter of if it will happen but rather when and how long the storms will last. However, planning and resilience and just plan old acceptance can harness this time in

As we gather together the best bits from the year that has ended and set our intentions for another year that has just began, I am reminded of something I wrote about waking several years ago... “Soft light of dawn creeps into my sleep. Waking, I find the trees silhouetted against my dreams.” Even t

I promised you a special holiday issue today and we are hopeful that this offering meets with your expectations. Since it is the holidays, and the very day of December 25, 2020, all the other gallery artists are home with their immediate households. So there is not much of a “we” today as I pull up

We can’t be sure but there seems to be a few things going amuck this holiday season. Santa still seems to be snoozing and the elves are up to no good everywhere it seems. So we have decided to keep this issue simple and feature a small works collection for you. As a subscriber to A Brush With Life,

Discover where the work and stories of Canadian landscape painters, Annerose Georgeson and Terrill Welch, meet and where they diverge from within their own unique forests and experiences. We are thrilled to bring you this online exclusive show “Between Branches - our being with trees” that extends f

In a human hive assembled into broken slices of time, it is relatively easy for a self-directed person to organize activities into these imagined slivers of existence. This is why we sometimes ask a busy person if we are desperate to get something done. They look at you for a moment, look away into

As we move firmly into the fourth quarter, it is time to reflect on the calendar year and assess where we are at and what opportunities might be ahead. What a year! Some have been devastated by the impact of this pandemic. Some have done better than usual and still others aren’t sure yet how they ar