A Brush with Life

By Terrill Welch Gallery

A Brush with Life is the good bits! Insider stories, discoveries, snippets, opinions, new works and shows for fans and art collectors of Terrill Welch paintings. Published every 2nd Friday.

Previous issues

A Brush with Life - Issue #39 Begin As You Mean to Continue

#39 Nov 15, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #38 Paintings of the Salish Sea Opens

#38 Nov 1, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #37 Painting Autumn Golds

#37 Oct 18, 2019

#36

Oct 4, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #36 Art Work and Falling in Love – One of the approaches I strive for is to be everywhere people are looking for art. This reach include
#35

Sep 20, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #35 What Must be Murdered For Art – We spend years learning our craft as an artist and a painter - now it is time to kill something in or
#34

Sep 6, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #34 And The Winners Are – Oh did we think it was going to be that easy!? It seems to be a wee bit more challenging than I had a
#33

Aug 23, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #33 Savoured Solitude – The clock on the stove says it is 4:27 am. There isn’t even a hint of dawn this late in August. I tur
#32

Aug 9, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #32 August Bliss – The Art of Terrill Welch Gallery celebrated its 2nd anniversary last weekend. Two years already! We a
#31

Jul 26, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #31 Art Collecting and Extreme Frugality – What, you might ask, could art collecting and extreme frugality have in common? As an art collector,
#30

Jul 12, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #30 Earth Sea and Sky Opens – Twelve of the eighteen paintings in the Art of Terrill Welch Gallery’s hottest show of the season wer
#29

Jun 28, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #29 Don’t Do Yourself A Mischief – Plein air painting or painting in the open air seems like it should be a leisurely Sunday picnic in t
#28

Jun 14, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #28 First Anniversary Issue – One year and 28 issues later brings us to the first anniversary of “A Brush With Life”. Together, we
#27

May 31, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #27 To Return To My Trees – There is a Welsh phrase (not a “Welch” phrase) “dod yn ôl at fy nghoed”, meaning “to return to a bala
#26

May 17, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #26 Hornby Island Captured in Painting References – Bundles of impressions with snippets of morning light linger over the rounded forms of the cliff and
#25

May 3, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #25 Painting Within Infinite Time – What might I imagine it means to paint within infinite time? I might remain forever curious, knowing
#24

Apr 19, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #24 Catching A Slow Art Breath – Spring is here isn’t it? Almost everywhere the water is flowing and the seedlings spouting... even if
#23

Apr 5, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #23 New Landscape Paintings Released – The Terrill Welch Gallery’s winter studio has been a productive space over these past few months. Now
#22

Mar 22, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #22 Magic in Ordinary Moments – Dazzling in the midday brilliance or softly soaking up the dusk, spring light, with its length stretc
#21

Mar 8, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #21 Smack Dab in the Middle of Everywhere – One might think that a landscape painter on a small island off the southwest coast of Canada would be
#20

Feb 22, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #20 The Drama of a Humble Painting Sketch – Seasoned painters have processes they use to reach their completed work. For some, this is graphite o

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