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
17
Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #3 Finding Something New

Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #3 Finding Something New

When I was feeling like I just wasn’t able to yet put paint on the large canvas for my other subject, I chose these seals and placed my small gessobord on my plein air easel right in front of the large easel with its still white canvas with a few pencil markings.
14 min read
Feb
03
A Brush with Life - Issue #122 Starting to Stir

A Brush with Life - Issue #122 Starting to Stir

Spring starts early here on the southwest coast of Canada. As soon as the days are noticeably longer the snowdrops bloom and the magnolia buds form. Not even temperatures dropping to just below freezing seems to still the stirring of new growth…
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Jan
20
Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #2 The Coziest of Cozy Season

Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #2 The Coziest of Cozy Season

There is a false sense that everyone is gone. This untruth seems to prevail only because the majority of people leave the island to the seals and otters during January and the first half of February. This climate is warm in the winter by Canadian standards. Cold is not the issue…
17 min read
Jan
06
A Brush with Life - Issue #121 Best of 2022 and Hello 2023

A Brush with Life - Issue #121 Best of 2022 and Hello 2023

What was that!? This is how I think of 2022. Continued monitoring and masking coupled with a new war and global financial uncertainty. However, here I am sprinting into 2023 with hardly a backward glance…
8 min read
Dec
23
A Brush with Life - Issue #120 Gift of Our Best Selves

A Brush with Life - Issue #120 Gift of Our Best Selves

Alert! Included in this final 2022 issue is a time limited special offer for A Brush with Life subscribers to
10 min read
Dec
22
Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #1 Before the Beginning

Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #1 Before the Beginning

Sometimes a new beginning is more like a middle or it might even possibly be near the end. We never really know do we?
19 min read
Dec
09
A Brush with Life- issue #119 Cozy Season with Sold Paintings

A Brush with Life- issue #119 Cozy Season with Sold Paintings

The last few days have been draped in lazily drifting snowflakes broken up with warm winter sun edged by a
10 min read
Nov
25
A Brush with Life - Issue #118 We Have Successfully Migrated

A Brush with Life - Issue #118 We Have Successfully Migrated

With the ease of a flock of Canadian geese heading south, our "A Brush with Life" newsletter has
11 min read
Nov
11
A Brush with Life - Issue #117 Change is Always in the Wind

A Brush with Life - Issue #117 Change is Always in the Wind

Today, I could use several carbon copies of me to implement online changes that hopeful will be seamless for our “A Brush With Life” newsletter. The short version is that the platform (Revue) that hosts “A Brush With Life” is suppose to become nonexistent by the end of the year. I have been monitori
9 min read
Nov
07
When it Rains in Winter

When it Rains in Winter

Allow me to offer a snippet of what is to come with a paid subscription to Terrill Welch by herself.
3 min read