A Brush with Life - Issue #125 Following Joy
When we asked our art collector about her selection of these two paintings, she replied that she was following her joy. Doesn’t that make you smile?
Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #5 Night Paintings and Spring Mud
With fear in my eyes, I would look up and see a clattering snowshoe-removing mosquito about the size of a small elephant becoming airborne. I knew from experience that it was heading straight for any of my delicate exposed skin.
A Brush with Life - Issue #124 West Coast Sea Escape
As the spring day really begin, we have a new “West Coast Sea Escape” show with paintings by Terrill Welch in the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod, OPEN DAILY 11-4 with extended hours 10-4 for the Made on Mayne Spring Tour at 428 Luff Rd, Mayne Island B.C….
Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #4 Arbutus Tree Company and Rough Seas
My outer and inner worlds seem to be mirroring each other these past few weeks. Turbulent and unsettled with smatterings of loveliness pretty much sums things up. I was telling a friend that I felt like I was…
A Brush with Life - Issue #123 Early Spring and the Anticipated Arrival of Blossoms
Very soon there will be plum and magnolia blossoms ringed with crocuses and daffodils combined with that earthy richness of freshly turned soil. This time is truly only days away for Mayne Island. As gardeners rattle their newly arrived seed packages, I am sorting my plein air gear…
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.
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…
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…
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…
A Brush with Life - Issue #120 Gift of Our Best Selves
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