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
A Brush with Life - Issue #53 The Gallery’s Arbutus Room Opens
The Terrill Welch Gallery’s new Arbutus Room features west coast landscape paintings of three other artists along with my own work. The Terrill Welch Gallery now has two rooms. The original main Garden Room of the gallery will continue to showcase just my paintings. I will soon have more information
A Brush with Life - Issue #52 Stepping Away From a Life I Thought I Knew
I hope you are well and getting lots of fresh air. It is the best! I have been painting of course but also just taking time to do nothing now and again. Time to simply be! I am in the process of organizing my daily living into to new rhythms with less focus on what is getting done and energy going o
A Brush with Life - Issue #51 Large West Coast Wave Heading For Alberta
This would be a painting. A large west coast French Beach seascape, 30 x 40 inch walnut oil painting, sold to collectors in Alberta while still wet on the easel. The wave was barely rolling towards the foreground shore in the painting and I received a private message asking about its availability. T
