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.
Nov
12
A Brush with Life - Issue #91 It’s Okay to Ask Sometimes

A Brush with Life - Issue #91 It’s Okay to Ask Sometimes

Recently, we were informed of coming changes to the short-term arrangement and long-term use of our commercial gallery space. The bottom line is that the gallery tenancy will end October 31, 2022.This situation is nothing new for small businesses in rental spaces. It is the nature of the insecurity
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Oct
29
A Brush with Life - Issue #90 The Dance I choose is Painting

A Brush with Life - Issue #90 The Dance I choose is Painting

Recently I read a quote that no one seems to know who wrote. It fits my current life view perfectly - “We can’t always choose the music life plays for us but we can choose how we dance to it.” There are always going to be events and circumstance that surprise, disappoint and send us scrambling to fi
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Oct
15
A Brush with Life - Issue #89 Soft Belly of the West Coast

A Brush with Life - Issue #89 Soft Belly of the West Coast

Early mornings are filled with mist in the half-light of sunrises or rolling seas pressed against pewter grey skies. Golden hour lengthens our stride beneath curving arbutus, tall fir and cedar trees as we listen to the echoing calls of a raven winging its way through their branches. This is the sof
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Oct
01
A Brush with Life - Issue #88 West Coast Autumn

A Brush with Life - Issue #88 West Coast Autumn

The southeasterly winds can bring rains across our valley straight sideways at times during a west coast storm. It is a time when I am thankful for good waterproof hiking shoes and a rain jacket. After our summer drought, the rains are welcomed, even when I can smell the snow capping the coastal mou
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Sep
17
A Brush with Life - Issue #87 Bigleaf Maple Leaves Drifting Down

A Brush with Life - Issue #87 Bigleaf Maple Leaves Drifting Down

Walking through the park at Georgina Point, I watched the Bigleaf Maples (ACER MACROPHYLLUM) releasing their leaves on a light breeze in the afternoon sun. The ferry whistles as comes through Active Pass and I wait in the golden light for the wake to break up the soft ripples of the sea. It is
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Sep
03
A Brush with Life - Issue #86 Cozy Season

A Brush with Life - Issue #86 Cozy Season

Our days shorten and the air cools as the visual light warms with the lower angle of the sun. We prepare for cozy season which is just an affection way to refer to fall and winter.
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Aug
20
A Brush with Life - Issue #85 Wild Seas and Last Call

A Brush with Life - Issue #85 Wild Seas and Last Call

First things first. This is last call, last chance, final reminder! However one says it, this is it for the gallery’s rare opportunity which is….Until midnight PST, on my birthday, August 28, 2021, with the purchase of any painting available by any of our artists, you can add an original T
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Aug
06
A Brush with Life - Issue #84 Fourth Anniversary and Rare Opportunity

A Brush with Life - Issue #84 Fourth Anniversary and Rare Opportunity

Monday August 1st was the Terrill Welch Gallery’s fourth anniversary. Though it was 2010 when I started working full-time as a landscape painter, it wasn’t until 2017 that I decided to put my energies into representing my own work almost exclusively rather than showing in other galleries and venues.
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Jul
23
A Brush with Life - Issue #83 No Moving Mountains

A Brush with Life - Issue #83 No Moving Mountains

Change the angle of the rocks, shift the trees, leave out a fence but it is best not to move the mountains! These large objects are often our most significant directional anchor. This is important to any of us who still use North, East, South and West to get our bearings - as a way of finding and pl
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Jul
09
A Brush with Life - Issue #82 Mayne Island Summer

A Brush with Life - Issue #82 Mayne Island Summer

Our summer art shows are up and everything is ready to welcome visitors - just in time! The gallery had both rooms open Saturday between 11-2 with over 35 walk-in guests. We haven’t spoken to this many people at one time since the summer of 2019. Pheewwwf!The big work this past couple of weeks has b
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