Terrill Welch Gallery Pod from Terrill Welch

Artist notes: I had gone to Bennett Bay and along the beach to where a seasonal creek was flowing into the sea and washing over seashells along the way. These varnish clamshells created a light musical sound as the water passed over them. The beauty of the shapes and sounds create a textured resonance in my being. For those moments, inner peace is held, in those shapes, in those colours and those sounds. In my painting, I find inner peace in the abstracted loosen of the brushstrokes, gifted to the linen surface without misgivings or hesitation. This is the full body experience I aim to capture in this small painting completed in oil, wet-in-wet, in the studio a month later from when I physically stood on that shore.