Terrill Welch

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Join us for a remarkable artistic experience at the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod, located at 428 Luff Rd, Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada. The gallery proudly presents the “Along the Salish Sea Shore" exhibition, showcasing the enchanting world of paintings by renowned internationally colle... more

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A Long Land and Sea Story by Terrill Welch
A Long Land and Sea Story by Terrill Welch
A Long Land and Sea Story by Terrill Welch
A Long Land and Sea Story by Terrill Welch
A Long Land and Sea Story by Terrill Welch
A Long Land and Sea Story by Terrill Welch
A Long Land and Sea Story by Terrill Welch
A Long Land and Sea Story by Terrill Welch
  • Terrill Welch
  • A Long Land and Sea Story, 2025
  • acrylic and oil and bone china on cradled birch panel
  • 40 x 30 x 1.5 in (101.6 x 76.2 x 3.81 cm)
  • Inv: TW1665O
  • C$10,000

Artist notes: Revealed is a vertical slice of earth exposed through erosion in such a way that the most of the surface of the painting has a narrow depth of field, holding space and time in the shapes of the shells and then releasing the viewer into an empty sky. For this work, flat colour is used for the aspects below ground combined with the symbolic red line and broken china and a representational illusion of a three dimensional view above ground. The painting contains the notion of a slice of earth exposing the passage of time. I am using the red line to represent climate impacts. Broken china is used to symbolize colonialism. The final colour of sky to represent space and mood. I am asking myself – what does it mean for a white woman of European settler culture in 2024 to paint the eroding Indigenous middens from 4,000 or more years ago on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish People in Canada?

  • Collections: Red Line Series, Seafloor and Seashell series, West Coast landscapes paintings