Terrill Welch

Terrill Welch

I am a landscape painter exposing life’s mystery in an ordinary day. Stripping away the human illusion of our separation from nature is at the core of my work.
Feb
21
A Brush with Life - Issue #46 Your Perfect Nature Adventure Partner

A Brush with Life - Issue #46 Your Perfect Nature Adventure Partner

Come discover nature through the eyes of a landscape painter. While exposing the mystery in an ordinary day, the Terrill Welch Gallery takes you right into our nature world. Stay current with recent adventures through our A Brush With Life newsletter. Every second Friday a complimentary is
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Feb
07
A Brush with Life - Issue #45 There Are Only Artists

A Brush with Life - Issue #45 There Are Only Artists

At the beginning of The Story of Art, Ernst Gombrich wrote, “There is really no such thing as Art. There are only artists” (first published in 1950 and now in its 16th edition). What might he have meant by this and why is it important? Gombrich later elaborated on this statement by saying that
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Jan
24
A Brush with Life - Issue #44 The Giddiness Stage

A Brush with Life - Issue #44 The Giddiness Stage

Now that the announcement of an additional room for the gallery has been made, it is time to get things sorted. Ask for help with preparing and painting walls. Check! Send email to contractor to install gallery track lighting and and hanging system. Check! Gather the three artists together that will
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Jan
10
A Brush with Life - Issue #43 Art of Terrill Welch Gallery Is Expanding

A Brush with Life - Issue #43 Art of Terrill Welch Gallery Is Expanding

Yes, the Art of Terrill Welch Gallery is adding another room. This new room will allow the gallery to show both more of my paintings, and a small number of highly curated new works by other artists, in the same kind of ambiance as the current gallery. 
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Dec
27
A Brush with Life - Issue #42 Best Landscape Paintings Of The Decade

A Brush with Life - Issue #42 Best Landscape Paintings Of The Decade

Here we are, celebrating the past decade of my contemporary landscape paintings! I find it hard to believe that ten years have gone by since I started painting full-time and operating my art business. So many of you have been with me for the duration of this painting adventure. Thank you for this! I
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Dec
13
A Brush with Life - Issue #41 Winter Studio Time

A Brush with Life - Issue #41 Winter Studio Time

The skies remain grey for most of our short daylight hours. I methodically move paint from the palette to my brush and onto a 30 x 24 inch canvas in the gallery’s winter studio. Seven new large custom-made canvases are ready to pick up in Victoria. Reference images are reviewed in the fold where the
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Nov
29
A Brush with Life - Issue #40 Supportless Blue

A Brush with Life - Issue #40 Supportless Blue

Rainer Maria Rilke writes to his sculptor wife, Clara Rilke-Westhoff, in Letters on Cézanne about noticing that “a large fan-shaped poplar was leafing playfully in front of this completely supportless blue, in front of the unfinished, exaggerated designs of a vastness...” and the date of the letter
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Nov
15
A Brush with Life - Issue #39 Begin As You Mean to Continue

A Brush with Life - Issue #39 Begin As You Mean to Continue

How we prepare to begin a task often sets our compass directions for future actions. Not always of course but often enough so as to make it worth contemplating. Recently, a subscriber wrote and shared this saying with me that had been given to her by her grandmother - begin as you mean to continue.
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Nov
01
A Brush with Life - Issue #38 Paintings of the Salish Sea Opens

A Brush with Life - Issue #38 Paintings of the Salish Sea Opens

With six new painting sketches released, the November solo exhibition “Paintings of the Salish Sea” opens today at the Art of Terrill Welch Gallery.
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Oct
18
A Brush with Life - Issue #37 Painting Autumn Golds

A Brush with Life - Issue #37 Painting Autumn Golds

The cadmium and lemon yellows triumphantly dash above crimson reds splashing both against the winter violets and mauve greys of pending winter. I have been traveling into the interior of British Columbia where snow flurries captured a whole day of my time in a remote cabin. Upon returning to the wes
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