Terrill Welch by herself - issue #20 Long Days of Summer
Doubled over and extending my upper body into the cavernous space beyond what might be considered comfortable, I find the box of important documents! The box is in the loft under the eaves behind a collection of stored paintings...
Terrill Welch by herself - issue #8 Living Deliberately
They came all summer long and into the fall, pulling trailers or hauling campers or boat. Driving slowly, past the old cabin on the river side and the barn on the field side, to pull up onto the stubby wild chamomile in front of the steps of my grandparent’s house.
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.
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…
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?
