This triptych is one work. There is an overall title ‘Clamshell Travel’ and inventory number plus a separate inventory number, title and artist notes attributed to each painting as follows:

TW1697Aa ‘In the Dark of the Moon’ by Terrill Welch, 12 x 10 inch acrylic on canvas board.

Artist notes: Imagine the sound of the sea washing ashore in the dark of the moon. There is a web of history running over each clamshell that is measured in millions of years of ancestors. To think of knowing a place so thoroughly as this?

TW1697Ab ‘By the Light of the Moon’ by Terrill Welch, 12 x 10 inch acrylic on canvas board.

Artist notes: A clamshell is thrust high on the sands by the light of the moon where the tide rushes in rearranging everything in its path. As if in prayer, it seems to wait for my morning arrival. I find myself in the spaces between what might be next.

TW1697Ac ‘Travelling Through Time’ by Terrill Welch, 12 x 10 inch acrylic on canvas. February 25, 2026.

Artist notes: Travelling through time is the third in a series of clamshell paintings. The three together convey how everything changes but nothing is lost in the web and wash of the shoreline. Though this painting can stand alone it is more when sharing space with the other two studies. The concept of thousands of years is mostly lost to me. But sitting with a small butter clamshell that is weather and worn, it is almost possible to grasp.