Terrill Welch

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

A the tip of Edith Point one day and then down at Reef Bay the next. What a difference a day makes! It is this diversity that has kept me engaged with our natural Mayne Island landscape for years. In this issue we will start there, and then we have a video introduction to the new “Close To Home” gro

The pandemic has kept most of us close to home during these past months and this reality has brought many changes to our daily lives and expectations. This is equally true for the artists in the Terrill Welch Gallery. Allow us to introduce one new painting from each gallery artists that is in the up

I often say that embarrassment is not fatal when I about to take a risk where I know I am reaching beyond my capacity, skill level and experience..... but I just have to try! I strongly recommend that we do what we don’t know how to do. Do something for others that we are not good at yet. Even do so