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 Gallery paintings. Published every 2nd Friday.

Previous issues

A Brush with Life - Issue #107 Loafing Around

#107 Jun 24, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #106 Hints of Summer and New Painting

#106 Jun 10, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #105 Artist Road Trip - part two

#105 May 28, 2022

#104

May 27, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #104 Artist Road Trip - part one – Artist road trips are likely when work most seems like play in a slow and meaningful way. We left May
#103

May 13, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #103 Mixing Things Up and Still Mixing – There are times when the only way to make something work is to mix up stray bits until something come
#102

Apr 29, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #102 Art Studio Organizing – The edges are painted on the last of the commissioned paintings and now it is time to work on getting
#101

Apr 15, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #101 OPEN - ISLAND TIME ART – We would be fibbing if we said there was anything happening over the past two weeks except doing a lo
#100

Apr 1, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #100 Within An Ordinary Day 100 Times – As recent weeks slip past in a tragic and unsettling rattle of explosives that results in rubble and
#99

Mar 18, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #99 Moments of Abstraction – Every ten to twelve years I will paint an abstract painting. It is a process of working that never re
#98

Mar 4, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #98 Sunflowers, Peace Doves and New Paintings – It is Sunday morning February 27, 2022. I write the following words for my social media profiles:If y
#97

Feb 18, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #97 The Story and the Brush of Great Paintings – What if we turn towards the shadows and implicitly embrace the open-endedness of great paintings and
#96

Feb 4, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #96 Wintering into Spring – There is a sense that if we do our quiet wintering well then new vibrant energies start to stir befor
#95

Jan 21, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #95 An Easel Suspended In Mist – Fog and mist shroud the island as temperatures rise to above eight degrees celsius. With the days get
#94

Jan 7, 2022

A Brush with Life - Issue #94 A Lonely Painter Living in a Box of Paints – Holidays can bring moments of doing-the-nothing-of-nothing until melancholy cracks open into even the
#93

Dec 10, 2021

A Brush with Life - Issue #93 Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings! – This is it folks! The soft light of December has delivered a calendar schedule that supports this bei
#92

Nov 26, 2021

A Brush with Life - Issue #92 Mudslides Floods and More Rain Coming – The next evening after publishing of our last issue, we left for Duncan on Vancouver Island. The rain
#91

Nov 12, 2021

A Brush with Life - Issue #91 It’s Okay to Ask Sometimes – Recently, we were informed of coming changes to the short-term arrangement and long-term use of our c
#90

Oct 29, 2021

A Brush with Life - Issue #90 The Dance I choose is Painting – Recently I read a quote that no one seems to know who wrote. It fits my current life view perfectly -
#89

Oct 15, 2021

A Brush with Life - Issue #89 Soft Belly of the West Coast – Early mornings are filled with mist in the half-light of sunrises or rolling seas pressed against pew
#88

Oct 1, 2021

A Brush with Life - Issue #88 West Coast Autumn – The southeasterly winds can bring rains across our valley straight sideways at times during a west co

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