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 #34 And The Winners Are

#34 Sep 6, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #33 Savoured Solitude

#33 Aug 23, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #32 August Bliss

#32 Aug 9, 2019

#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
#19

Feb 8, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #19 When things might not go as imagined – It could be a painting in process, an elite boutique in full renovation mode, the world’s projected p
#18

Jan 25, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #18 Morning Has Broken – Have you broke into song? Shall we do it together? “Morning has broken, like the first morning....” I
#17

Jan 11, 2019

A Brush with Life - Issue #17 West Coast Island Winter Studio – January - the month when many of the full-time west coast islanders take a break to someplace warm an
#16

Dec 28, 2018

A Brush with Life - Issue #16 A Painter’s Guide to the New Year – At the close of each year, I reach back and pick up the best bits and toss them forward, leaving step
#15

Dec 14, 2018

A Brush with Life - Issue #15 Last Minute Relaxing – There is the holiday hustle, the slipping out the back door to the pub, the pulling the covers over o

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