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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Over time, Terrill Welch has painted the Mayne Island Japanese Memorial Garden both plein air and from references back in her art studio. These are some of the paintings that have resulted from those effort.

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 Quick Acrylic Painting Sketch collection are plein air or studies that sometimes lead to references for larger oil paintings. However, many appreciates these as complete works on their own.

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.

Terrill Welch only occasionally paints stilllife subjects. However, here are a few for your browsing pleasure.

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.

Paintings and sketches of trees that speak of our essential connection.