Terrill Welch by herself - issue #9 WAYS OF BEING
I have often fantasized about what it would be like to live in a monastery and spend much of my day meditating in solitude. We are now getting really close to this...
Terrill Welch by herself issue #7 Learn to Lose Well
We could give up. We could walk away in defeat. In fact, in the face of grinding adversity, we could never even try to live a meaningful life. Most often though, we don’t give up, do we?
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?
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…
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…
When it Rains in Winter
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