A Brush with Life - Issue #63 What A Difference A Day Makes
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
A Brush with Life - Issue #62 Close To Home Opens Wednesday
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
A Brush with Life - Issue #61 Playing The Fool
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
A Brush with Life - Issue #60 A Favourite Time Of Year
September is often like the second new year for us. Studio visits are happening, edges are being painted, hanging wires added and new work put into inventories. The artists’ studios are vibrant and full.
A Brush with Life - Issue #59 Dig Deep And See What Is
Do you remember those moments when you don’t have a clue but you proceed with naive confidence anyway? This is how it all began. In one of these kinds of moments. I had decided that the Terrill Welch Gallery needed a logo. I found a great AI online support through Looka and started designing. I knew
A Brush with Life - Issue #58 Three Year Anniversary
The beginning of August is our three year anniversary of the Terrrill Welch Gallery. Thank you for your support and ongoing patronage.
A Brush with Life - Issue #57 Wholeness in Work and in Life
The West coast blues turn soft, swaddling our newborn summer with hope and anticipation. July! Even in late July our brief summer seems endless as the warm evenings and early mornings catch a distant sea-breeze and lift the edges of our linen sheets, thrown askew while sleepy limbs reach toward open
A Brush with Life - Issue #56 Where Our Heart Lives
A gift of words, written by yet another, sometimes awakens an awareness of a kindred space where our heart live...“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature
A Brush with Life - Issue #55 A Different Kind Of Summer Online Show
The Terrill Welch Gallery has put together a special online gallery show of available Terrill Welch summer paintings. Here in British Columbia, we are talking about a different kind of summer and one where we stay close to home. Words like “staycation” and “explore your own backyard” have cropped up
A Brush with Life - Issue #54 Island Time Summer 2020 Solo Exhibition
The Terrill Welch Gallery main Garden Room is showing “Island Time Summer 2020” - a solo exhibition of some of Terrill Welch’s larger arbutus tree paintings is now ready for visitors by appointment, 1 or 2 from the same household at a time, mask recommended and hand sanitizer provided. We are a