A Brush with Life - Issue #30 Earth Sea and Sky Opens
Twelve of the eighteen paintings in the Art of Terrill Welch Gallery’s hottest show of the season were completed since the beginning of 2019. (There has been 21 new works completed and released since January 1st but who is counting? ;) Earth, Sea and Sky is a solo show that is about exactly what the
A Brush with Life - Issue #29 Don’t Do Yourself A Mischief
Plein air painting or painting in the open air seems like it should be a leisurely Sunday picnic in the park. A person sticks on a floppy hat, sets up an easel on a sunny afternoon by the sea and there you have it - a dab, dab and dab of paint and you are done. What could be safer than that right? W
A Brush with Life - Issue #28 First Anniversary Issue
One year and 28 issues later brings us to the first anniversary of “A Brush With Life”. Together, we did this hard thing! Because of your encouraging notes, passionate comments and purchases of my original paintings, I never wavered on my commitment to bring the best bits to you, in this curated new
A Brush with Life - Issue #27 To Return To My Trees
There is a Welsh phrase (not a “Welch” phrase) “dod yn ôl at fy nghoed”, meaning “to return to a balanced state of mind” or the literal translation is “to return to my trees“. This, as you know, is something that I do often. But sometimes, I even surprise myself with how powerful the pull
A Brush with Life - Issue #26 Hornby Island Captured in Painting References
Bundles of impressions with snippets of morning light linger over the rounded forms of the cliff and ragged sun-bleached driftwood. The sweet lime-toffee-scent of new growth on cedar and fir trees mingle with the pungent sea at low tide and crest into my awareness between barking sea lions and the d
A Brush with Life - Issue #25 Painting Within Infinite Time
What might I imagine it means to paint within infinite time? I might remain forever curious, knowing that each work is a long movement within an endless space of observation and experience. How does this show up in my practice as a landscape painter? Well, let’s see....
A Brush with Life - Issue #24 Catching A Slow Art Breath
Spring is here isn’t it? Almost everywhere the water is flowing and the seedlings spouting... even if through fresh snow in some locations, in Canada at least. This is a time of turnover for the Terrill Welch Gallery as I pack up and return the winter studio to its home location and prepare for
A Brush with Life - Issue #23 New Landscape Paintings Released
The Terrill Welch Gallery’s winter studio has been a productive space over these past few months. Now it is time to get all the edges painted and the work released into the online inventory ahead of setting up the first physical show of the season. Officially, the first gallery show Between Here and
A Brush with Life - Issue #22 Magic in Ordinary Moments
Dazzling in the midday brilliance or softly soaking up the dusk, spring light, with its length stretching longer into the evening due to the time change, feels like survival and jubilation. I just want to hug friends and even stranger, then hold them out at arms length, look them in the eye while gr
A Brush with Life - Issue #21 Smack Dab in the Middle of Everywhere
One might think that a landscape painter on a small island off the southwest coast of Canada would be isolated and separated from all that is relevant and important to art collectors and the art world. After all, even her subject area and approach are possibly more mid-century in style (you are supp
