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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
A Brush with Life - Issue #81 Summer Show Opens - Next to the Salish Sea
On our bellies leaning over a dock in Horton Bay, bracing against the winds in a storm to capture large rollers coming ashore or lengthening our stride along a forested seaside trail are all part of life on Mayne Island next to the Salish Sea. Our recent months of staying close to home has only deep
A Brush with Life - Issue #80 Stepping Lightly
An essential rush of early dawn drapes over the curves of an Arbutus tree along the Mayne Island shore. Waves roll up and separate into cascading jewels. Seagulls rest in a moment of quiet communion. Dreams and memories meld into imagined and remembered places. This has been an unprecedented year fo
A Brush with Life - Issue #79 Mindfully Opening
New art shows will be opening in the Terrill Welch Gallery in June. We will also begin to again have a few walk-in hours available for both of our gallery rooms, starting with this Saturday 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. We are mindfully opening in a slow and thoughtful way. Following this week’s Provincial a
