The Acrylic Painting Sketch collection are quick plein air or studies that sometimes lead to references for larger oil paintings.

Arbutus trees show up so often in my paintings that I decided that they needed a their own collection of just Arbutus trees. Enjoy!

During the past decade 2010-2019, contemporary landscape painter Terrill Welch exposes the mystery in an ordinary day. She completed over 300 paintings. Of these, about 260 were released for purchase and 150 sold to private collectors in eight different countries. Terrill Welch has chosen 20 of her favourite paintings for this collection to the celebrate her best work of the decade. Enjoy!

May 17 - July 7, 2019 with - Paintings about a life lived within the landscape between the Southwest Coast to North Central of British Columbia by internationally collected, contemporary Canadian artist, Terrill Welch.

May 2022 - December 2022

This specific online exclusive show has been selectively curated to provide an immersive southwest coast experience through the eyes of landscape painter Terrill Welch.

In 2021, Terrill Welch released 28 new paintings and sold 44 from her available inventory and by commission. This trajectory has been steadily building since she began painting full-time in 2010. If you are passionate about contemporary landscape painting, Terrill is an artist you will want to follow and consider adding to your art collection.

Terrill Welch’s paintings are internationally collected. Her oil paintings and acrylic painting sketches have been shown in public and commercial spaces since the late 1990’s.

Terrill Welch has lived on Mayne Island in British Columbia, Canada since 2007 and her work is in private collections that also include such renowned Canadian landscape painters as Emily Carr, A.Y. Jackson and Lawren Harris.

Born in the village of Vanderhoof in north-central British Columbia, Terrill Welch was invited into an adult painting class when she was fourteen years old. Terrill Welch has taken many college-level courses in drawing and painting. For several years, she taught the art of oil painting from life in natural light, using water mixable or walnut oil paints.

The spirited southwest coast of Canada moves with rhythmic power and ease under Terrill Welch’s brushstrokes. There is a sensory intimacy between the painter and the southwest coast’s unique trees, sandstone shores, open ocean beaches and historic landmarks. Viewers of Terrill’s oil and acrylic contemporary landscape paintings feel as if they know these places, even if they have only visited through her paintings.

July 12 – Sept 1, 2019 Step into the west coast landscape one powerful painting at a time with internationally collected, contemporary Canadian artist, Terrill Welch. This solo exhibition is at the Art of Terrill Welch Gallery on Mayne Island in British Columbia, Canada.

This 35 hectares of seaside trails has long been enjoyed by local Mayne Island residents at the welcome of the Graves family who have stewarded the lands since the 1990’s. Now, with the hard work of many including the Graves family, the Mayne Island Conservancy and the National Conservancy of Canada this delicate ecosystem in Coast Salish territory will be preserved. Edith Point has inspired many paintings over the years but most often the specific location was not shared due to it being private land where I had special access as a Mayne Island community member. Now, with its new conservation status, it feels right to share these paintings as a body of work. Learn more on the Nature Conservancy Canada website.

As a landscape painter I have places that I revisit over time finding something new to brush onto a canvas for board. One of these places is the Saint John Point Park Reserve. These paintings range from 2018 up until today. I hope you enjoy the variety and exploration of this unique ecosystem located within Coast Salish Territory. Thanks and recognition to the Mayne Island Conservancy and the family who owned this property for working so hard towards its park status. Learn more about this 26 hectare waterfront park reserve that was established in 2017 on the Capital Regional District website.

Art of Terrill Welch Gallery Solo Exhibition “Paintings of the Salish Sea” November 1 – 9, 2019 Small and large landscape and seascape paintings, by internationally collected, contemporary Canadian artist, Terrill Welch, brush an ancient song in painting notes of movement and mystery across the canvases.

The Red Line Series began in 2021 as a way of being personably accountable for noticing the impacts on our environment while holding the tension between the grandness and beauty during the destruction of our landscape. Sea levels rise, damage from storm surges increase, wild fire smoke gives us deep orange moonrises, glaciers in the mountains melt endangering our freshwater supply and we are running out of suitable sand to make cement as we mine the landscape relentlessly for its resources. I could paint stunning landscapes for the next twenty years. But, in a way, they would be a lie, denying the pain and lump in my throat as I walk amongst the trees. Right now, painting only such paintings of bliss seem irresponsible, an unacceptable personal denial. So I went to work to find a more honest way to render my experiences.

Generally this collection only has the work of Terrill Welch. However, from September 15 to October 17, 2022 the Still Life Paintings collection will include guest works by Jody Waldie, Glenda King, Jennifer Peers and Maeva Lightheart as well as those of Terrill Welch. The collection is providing an online browsing and purchasing option for the “Late Summer Gold” group show in the ISLAND TIME ART room at 492 Dalton Dr. on Mayne Island, BC. Open 10-5 Wednesday through Monday and closed on Tuesday.

Thriving in Place is to fully live, grow and evolve right where I am. It is to honour the desire and ability to reach deep beneath the surface of all aspects of our natural world in my painting practice with revelry. I rejoice in what each day offers close to home on our small island off the southwest coast of Canada. Thriving in Place is a celebration of my everyday and the ordinary. I have enough and I am enough, today, with where I am and who I am. Methods and approaches will vary while my intention holds steady. These Thriving in Place paintings come from here and they invite you into the same practice for living.