NO REASON Canadian west coast oil painting by Terrill Welch
No reason is reason enough to sit quiet and observe and breathe into the world around us, a way of feeling more than seeing.
NO REASON is a 12 x 10 inch alla prima or wet-on-wet Canadian west Coast oil painting study.
UPDATE May 24, 2013: This painting has SOLD.
More about the background that inspired this painting on Creative Potager blog post “By the for no reason inspires west coast oil painting“
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The Edge and At The Beach Another Time – Canadian landscape paintings
Two new Canadian landscape paintings are ready to release from my studio.
THE EDGE is a brand new 48 x 24 inch rendering of a sandstone bluff battered by the wind and sea but also hosts a familiar arbutus tree on its top most tip. It is a rare large long-lean painting to out of my studio. THE EDGE is about strength, beauty and opportunity.
Detailed view and purchase information is available HERE.
As well, more about the work-in-progress is posted on today’s Creative Potager blog “Working on THE EDGE can offer some interesting possibilities.”
AT THE BEACH ANOTHER TIME is a 12 x 12 inch rework of an older painting. I seldom do this as I much prefer to start with a blank canvas but sometimes a painting will continue to call me – it is like it was never finished…
Detailed view and purchase information is available HERE.
In other news from my studio two other paintings have been sent off to new homes.
ROCKS AT SUNRISE an 8 x 8 inch oil on gessobord.
This painting is now in a private collection in Windsor Ontario Canada.
LATE DECEMBER WEST COAST SUNRISE a 6 x 6 inch oil on gessobord.
This painting is now in a private collection Victoria, British Columbia Canada.
Below are links to most of my current work that is available. Please feel free to browse at your leisure and contact me directly if you have any questions.
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Sister oil paintings of Tulips on the Springwater Deck Mayne Island
Two new bright 20 x 16 oil on canvas sister paintings of the luscious tulips on the Springwater Deck are ready for your perusal.
The first is a plein air painting which had a few minor edits back in the studio to bring it to completion.
TULIPS SPRINGWATER DECK MAYNE ISLAND
Detailed view and purchase information available HERE.
There is more about the plein air work-in-progress including a short video on my Creative Potager blog post “Tulips on the deck of the Springwater lodge en plein air” Though a fine representation of the subject and a painting I am happy with I had this deep desire to experiment further with this great subject.
The second is a studio work of the same subject on the same size canvas. My intention with the second painting was to explore the relationships between the various elements of the scene. I wanted to capture the shifting temporariness of the moment. I wanted to feel the sun, the breeze and the smells of the sea as we view the tulips on the large pot on the deck.
TULIPS SPRINGWATER DECK II
Detailed view and purchase information available HERE.
Now let’s have a look at them side-by-side because I am afraid these sister paintings will always be compared. It is just a human trait we have to want to compare things that are similar.
Though obviously sisters, each painting has its own personality and character. In early comments from viewers there seems to be not much of a preference for one over the other.Though there are some who definitely like one more than the other. As the painter I am ambivalent about a preference as each as something to me and neither is perfect but both are alive.
What about you? Do you have a preference for one painting over the other? If so which one and what is it that has it being your favourite?
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More Canadian Landscape paintings by Terrill Welch SOLD!
You might be saying “where have you been!?” You would be right to ask of course. It is true. I am finding it hard to squeeze in a new blog post here. I don’t know what to say. Either it is fluke good luck or my art work has gained some momentum.
Since I last posted on March 13, 2013, four more paintings and a medium canvas fine art photography print have been sold. This means that, since the middle of January 2013, a total of eight paintings and three fine art photography prints. This may not sound like much but it represents several thousands of dollars worth of art work. It is enough to get that new canon camera body and lens I have been wishing on and to begin to think about next steps for showing my art work. The other noteworthy aspect of these sales is that all but two were Canadian purchases. My work is usually sold in the reverse ratio with most of it going to buyers in the United States or even Europe rather than my fellow Canadians.
At this rate, I will not be able to continue to share posts about all the specific paintings and photographs that have sold. However, just for fun, lets look at the latest that have found new homes.
This photograph of Edith Point, Mayne Island, in a medium size canvas print was purchases as a housewarming gift and is on its way to Vancouver, B. C. Canada.
Sea Glimpse
(Image can be purchased on Redbubble HERE)
The same collector also purchased an 8 x 10 inch oil on canvas painting, PEARS IN WINTER FIRST LIGHT for their own art collection.
Another art collector from Victoria B.C. Canada purchased these two paintings to be hung as a pair in her office.
SATURNA ISLAND SEA AND SHORE – 16 x 12 inch oil on canvas
FIDDLERS CLIFFSIDE SATURNA ISLAND – 16 x 12 inch oil on canvas
These three paintings were purchased with basic show frames and are ready to hang in their new locations. Framing is not something I often do and I do not recommend it for buyers that need to have their paintings shipped. However, it is a nice option for local sales and when visitors come directly to my home studio to pick up their art.
This final work that sold, PLUM SPRING, is an 8 x 10 inch oil on gessobord small study. The painting found its new collector within 2:24 minutes of being shared in its “resting” state and it is still awaiting its final photograph.
The Vancouver Island art collector who purchased this painting has been looking for a while waiting for “her painting” to come off my easel. When it did, she knew right away and wasted not even a minute in letting me know. She told me if she had seen in any quicker she would have inquired to purchase it that much sooner. It might be what we call love at first sight. 
This is the second painting I have completed recently which has sold within 24 hours of when I have set it aside to rest.
It all means I must keep those brushes moving and the shutter clicking! Not a hardship really 
Here is one of my latest paintings which is completed but has not yet been released for sale yet. I just want to keep it for a while and enjoy the rolling of the waves as they push up against the shore. But I thought you might enjoy seeing the completed work just the same.
RHYTHM OF THE SEA EDITH POINT – 20 x 40 inch oil on canvas with finished edges.
There is more about the painting process of this work on my Creative Potager blog HERE.
Paintings that ARE currently available can be found in my Artsy Home gallery HERE.
I am so glad and deeply honoured that you have dropped in to celebrate with me. As always, thank you kindly for your support and for sharing my work with your family and friends. It all makes a difference and is key to the success of an independent artist such as myself.
A warm cyber-hug to you and happy art collecting!
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Contemporary Canadian Landscape paintings by Terrill Welch SOLD!
The global economy is as dreary as a rainy day in a Gulf Island west coast winter. Disposable income for luxuries like original art is supposedly shrinking. Why then are these original Terrill Welch contemporary Canadian landscape oil paintings selling like ice-cream on sunny July afternoon? The oil paintings are possibly pricey by emerging artist standards. So it is not because they are cheap. The oil paintings are not realism, highly polished or framed. Nor are the paintings painted in the repetitive series that is sometimes common with contemporary art. So it is not because they will appeal to a conservative art buyer who is buying something similar to what other buyers have purchased. In fact, “contemporary” may even be a questionable designation, other than it relates to the present, as the paintings likely have more in common with late 1800 impressionism than most studio landscape and en plein air paintings of today. The subject of the paintings are mostly about the sea. So it is not like the paintings have a corner staked out for originality of subject matter. The oil paintings are currently not being shown in physical galleries or museums where they are exposed to traditional art collectors. So it is not because they are promoted to an already self-selected art market. However, this doesn’t preclude historic Canadian landscape art collectors of the like of Emily Carr, Lawren Harris and A. Y. Jackson from purchasing a “Terrill Welch original” to add to their collection, as is the case with the 36 x 36 inch oil on canvas SEA AND CLOUDS that was recently purchased by these enthusiastic collectors.
So what could be the perplexing desire then to bring one of these original Terrill Welch paintings home? What might it be?
Maybe you can help answer this question. Here is an example of four of the oil paintings that have sold in the last eight weeks.
NAVY CHANNEL 9 x 12 inch with roughly finished edges sold to a new collector
WINTER AFTERNOON WEST COAST FERRY HOME 12 x 16 inch unframed, sold to a new collector
ORCAS IN EVENING 12 x 12 inch gessobord mounted on wood cradle, sold to a new collector
WEST COAST BLUES study 12 x 16 inch unframed, sold to a long time collector who has several paintings spanning over 15 years.
So do you have any ideas what is the appeal of these paintings that has them so quickly finding new homes? I would love hear your thoughts either in the comments below or in a private email to tawelch@shaw.ca .
As you might guess, I shall be raising the prices for my paintings in the first week of April. This is not just because of the pace of sales but also because it is something I revisit annually.
To keep your spirit of purchasing an original oil painting possibilities up, here is today’s release of a new 9 x 12 inch study BETWEEN LAND AND SEA BEGGING THE SKY TO INTERVENE
(Detailed view and purchasing information available HERE)
Update: View a second post from three weeks later with more art work that has SOLD HERE.
If you are new to buying art, you may find my “Seven Tips for Buying Original Paintings” useful as well.
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END OF TODAY small Canadian landscape sunset painting
The low clouds and mist tumbled freely with the setting sun by the sea. END OF TODAY is an oil paint rendering of another Mayne Island sunset in the southern Gulf Islands on the west coast of Canada.
Update April 16, 2013: This painting is no longer available.
This wee 5 x 7 inch Canadian Landscape is an uncommon find in my online offers. I usually keep them for local collectors but this painting seemed suitable to share for those with a small wall space or just beginning to collect original art. A natural wood frame is optional for inclusion with this painting.
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Fog Inside Passage winter west coast Canadian landscape painting
Winter fog in the southern gulf islands is often dense and close to the sea. Islands appear and disappear as the ferries take passengers through the inside passage. The mysterious landscape has a beauty that is hard to know unless one lives with it for the long winter months of off-season quiet. This 12 x 24 inch oil on canvas is my rendering of this tactile west coast Canadian landscape experience.
FOG INSIDE PASSAGE
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Road to Everyday – Canadian landscape painting
The heavy fog on the road this day – this painting is an interpretation of common-place stillness that is clearly visible in my sensory memory. It is a time when deep quiet comes to dripping woods along the sea. Though this scene may possibly be mapped for hundreds and even thousands of years into the collective history of humankind, still I paint it. I paint this common-place Canadian landscape because it pleases me.
ROAD TO EVERYDAY 36 x 24 inch oil on canvas.
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Winter Morning By The Sea – a small seascape painting
The day starts with soft hints of colour through heavy cloud and mist. Yet, the wonder of a new beginning, a new start, is still powerful and satisfying in its own natural abstract way. WINTER MORNING BY THE SEA is a small 8 x 10 inch oil on canvas window of hope and possibility for any kind of day.
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Sliced with a Tear – a large autumn Canadian landscape painting
There is something about autumn by the sea with the gray melancholy wrapped in fall colours. This particular day is one of those slow-baked, melancholy west coast Sundays, so moist and tender you can slice it with a tear.
Days pass with my dreams waking me up early to paint for many of my waking hours. I am consumed with the transitions between light and shadow and form.
The details show the looseness of easy strokes with two and one inch brushes.
There is the leaves against the sky on the far top right. Nothing but swathes of golden colour added to the sky with a hint of branches to hold them in place. Then there is the clatter of colour near one of the main tree trunks a the top near the left side of the painting, colours that must roll over and under each other bringing the leaves forward in the painting towards the viewer.
But it is the whole of this 36 x 60 inch (or 3 feet by 5 feet) oil on canvas that tells the story of this particular fall day.
There is more about the background and painting process for this work in the Creative Potager blog post at “ SLICED WITH A TEAR autumn oil painting in process by Terrill Welch.”
This painting is not going to be released for sale anytime as I am keeping it in my Artist’s collection for the time being.
However, almost all paintings that are currently available can be viewed in the Artsy Home online gallery HERE. Enjoy your browsing.
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At Dusk a small Canadian landscape painting
There are moments in my Canadian rural life that seem to come tumbling out of my memory folders with predictable frequency. One of these is sitting on the riverbank of the Stuart River in North Central British Columbia with my mother and father as the last of the day’s light slipped out of the sky. It seems the wind often dropped at dusk and a hush would fall gracefully over the working day. We may see a muskrat or a beaver swimming out on the still water. In the summer there would be sure to be the steady hum of mosquitoes. But, if we were very lucky, a moose might be feeding on the far bank and we would hear it munching and wadding in the reeds long before its shadow became evident in the fading light.
Though not a geographical exact representation, this painting is a tribute to this time and is a scene that first made its way repeatedly onto my painting canvases as young teenager and budding Canadian Landscape painter.
AT DUSK 10 x 12 inch oil on canvas
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Pear Trees in Winter First Light – small oil painting
A painting expressing the connections between the various elements and finding the space surrounding and holding the visual tension between land, sea and sky. The pear trees seem to reach around in the morning light reminding us that nothing is separate and all is dependent on seen and unseen influences.
This 10 x 8 inch oil on canvas can be viewed in detail and purchased HERE.
This painting is included with two others in my blog post “Doing a Henri Matisse in three new paintings” at:
http://creativepotager.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/doing-a-henri-matisse-in-three-new-paintings
Of the three, it is by far the one most akin to my usual painting style where paintbrush and palette knife work interchangeably to meet my needs.
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Winter Afternoon West Coast Ferry Home oil painting
The winds were high that day. When we boarded the ferry for home the captain requested that we make sure the emergency brake was set on our vehicle and to then remain seated as much as possible for the voyage home. It was indeed a little rough as we cross the waters between Swartz Bay and Pender Island. Then the sea settled. But the sky still rolled as the sun pushed its way through just before setting over the far islands in the inside passage. The light was glorious.
This 12 x 16 inch oil on canvas is now SOLD – updated February 4, 2013.
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Evening Thunderclouds over the Strait of Georgia – dramatic seascape sky painting
Thunderclouds caught in the setting sun make miniatures out the majestic coastal range on the far side of the Straight of Georgia. The very swiftness of their movement in the fading light offers us a skyward dance across the sky which we are all but bewitched into accepting. How does a painter capture this swelling of spirit and visceral sense of tingling presence? The answer may seem obvious – with a brush of course. But is it really that simple? To take a moment like this and stand before a blank canvas with a few oil pigments squeezed from their tubes and then translate such an experience? No it is difficult. In fact it took me two years to get up the nerve to try. Yet, with several photographic references from the experience it was easy to be standing on the shore at Georgina Point looking up at the sky and to be swept away by these cloud partners as my brush recorded each pass we made across the sky.
EVENING THUNDERCLOUDS OVER THE STRAIT OF GEORGIA is a 20 x 20 inch oil on canvas
(Please contact Artist about purchase information)
For local Mayne Island residents and visitors, this painting is currently showing at the Farm Gate Store.
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Late December West Coast Sunrise small oil painting
The deep mauve and purple with yellow, pink and orange over the dark water of a winter sunrise brings such joy and conviction to the day. The coolness of the west coast winter air and soft slap of the waves from the sea greetings tells us we are alive. Yes, so very much alive. The quick brush strokes of a small oil painting study capture the experience. It is another painting for squared to the sea series which I started over a year ago.
Update April 23, 2013: This painting is no longer available and is going to a private collector in Victoria B.C. Canada.
This small 6 x 6 inch oil painting on gessobord with a wood cradle was the fifth painting out of six that were painted as a part of the work completed during the painting process of a larger canvas. To learn more, read my Creative Potager blog post “Unraveling the artistic influences and intentions behind the painting Evening and the Arbutus Tree“
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Evening and the Arbutus Tree – a large west coast oil painting
The sun is going down fast in the late afternoon of November out on Georgina Point, Mayne Island . I marvel at the orange glow and the hues of the heavy mist in the distance of our west coast landscape. I knew then that this most-loved tree was once again going to grace one of my canvases – a large one this time. There is the coolness of a winter sea with soft waves barely evident on the shore. There is a quiet and a peace that often accompanies the end of a day. There is a sense of being alive without separation between land, sea and sky. It is often such with the Canadian landscape but so hard to portray in away that someone who has never been, never stood where I am standing will know what it is I speak about. Yet, this tree knows and seems to be willing to assist me in my interpretation.
From its clinging roots dug into the sandstone bank…
to its gorgeous truck reaching skyward…
to the beautiful flow of its branched evergreen leafy crown…
May its beauty embrace you.
EVENING AND THE ARBUTUS TREE – 36 x 60 inch oil on canvas painting.
(Detailed viewing and purchase information available HERE)
As a Canadian Landscape painter I am often challenged to find my way visually and spiritually into and through my physical environment. I have not yet told or even succinctly understood all that happened on this canvas. All I know is something in me has changed during the process. I have discovered an aspect of my being that I did not know existed before.
I write more about the process and influences behind this painting over on my Creative Potager blog at http://creativepotager.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/unraveling-the-artistic-influences-and-intentions-behind-the-painting-evening-and-the-arbutus-tree
Enjoy the naked freshness of this painting as it is released from this artist’s studio.
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Reef Bay Morning Experienced – west coast seascape oil painting
I remember the sea, and the soft rush of water as it comes ashore. I remember the heaviness of the rocks and the salty dampness of winter seaweed. I feel the coolness of the air and the cry of the gulls.
REEF BAY MORNING EXPERIENCED is an 14 x 18 inch alla prima or wet-on-wet seascape painting with the quiet strength that is part of any peaceful west coast day.
(Detailed viewing and purchase information is available HERE)
A Sunday seems like a perfect release day for this new work that was completed late in 2012 and right in the heart of the gray that prevails during the short wet winter days. Yet is somehow a hopeful painting, one that fills me with resilience and inner strength against mounting melancholy. This is the kind of creative environment that feeds my creative muse and stills self-doubt with swift observation and quick sure brushstrokes.
More about the inspiration and process behind the rendering of this painting is available at Reef Bay Mayne Island observation to painted experience .
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Early November Sea oil painting by Terrill Welch
This 14 x 18 by 3/4 inch oil on canvas is now available in the Artsy Home online gallery at http://www.artsyhome.com/product/Early-November-Sea
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August 31, 2012 premier of The Artist Studio Floor Show
Well, I am excited. I have three paintings in this premier of The Artist Studio Floor Show August 31, 2012.
My first painting to be included is AT THE BEACH 12 X 12 inch oil on canvas
Original Price: $595 Floor Show offering: To be announced Aug. 24, 2012 HERE.
PURCHASE AT FLOOR SHOW PRICE ON DAY OF EVENT HERE.
World Clock for this Event
09:00 (9:00 AM) CDST Aug. 31, 2012 through 09:00 (9:00 AM) CDST Sept. 1, 2012
What is a the Studio Floor Show?
Artists paint. Artists accumulate work. A lot of work. It’s that simple.
Sometimes that work never finds its way to a gallery or exhibition and sits on the artist’s studio floor. That inventory can become unmanageable, taking up valuable creative space and the artist must do something. Throughout the years, artists would open their studios to the public and sell their work at a sacrifice in order to make room. The art is usually stacked and leaning against walls, on the floor… hence the name. As one patron once told me, “It’s like mining for gold”.
Historically, these shows are held in brick and mortar studios, but with the advent of the internet, it is now possible for you to enjoy the excitement of attending one of these shows… right from the comfort of your home.
The Artist Studio Floor Show will present these virtual shows on the same premise as in the real world. They will be for one day only, for twenty-four hours from the posted start date and time. Each participating artist will exhibit their work on this site with a link to their respective websites. You will be able to purchase your art directly from the artist… from their studio.
My second painting to be included is CABIN ON SHORE 18 x 24 inch oil on canvas
Original Price: $1,495 Floor Show offering: To be announced Aug. 24, 2012 HERE.
PURCHASE AT FLOOR SHOW PRICE ON DAY OF EVENT HERE.
My third and final painting in the show is FAR SHORE and also a 18 x 24 inch oil on canvas.
Original Price: $1,495 Floor Show offering: To be announced Aug. 24, 2012 HERE.
PURCHASE AT FLOOR SHOW PRICE ON DAY OF EVENT HERE.
Summary: To view all paintings included in this show go to The Artist Studio Floor Show EVENT POST. Note, floor show prices will not be posted until August 24, 2012. Sales at floor show prices cannot be completed until Aug. 31st, per the published time (above), and for a 24 hour period only.
I hope that you have as much fun with this event as we are! Enjoy!
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ALWAYS ROSES still life oil painting by Terrill Welch
ALWAYS ROSES is a 24 x 36 inch oil on canvas still life painting
Here are a couple of images of details as well.
and the second one…
I will be finishing the edges on this painting in a few days and then it will be available for purchase with my other work at the online Gallery Artsy Home. I will update this post when the painting is posted. This is a sneak preview for those who follow and love my work. If you are interested in buying this painting and you do not want to wait that long, please feel free to contact me directly.
I haven’t painted flowers in the past few years but I have done so on other occasions. It seems I paint whatever I am involved in during my daily living. For example, this week I painted a scene from the local haying I had been asked to photograph for a client (that painting will be share soon as well). When I was in university I painted conceptual paintings about the ideas I was studying and puzzling over. I never painted seascapes at unless I was on the coast. I am sure if I spent more time in the city you be seeing scenes of people in coffee shops or street paintings maybe something like those of Edward Hopper http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/street and his painting Night Hawks. I do believe that like writing, painting what we know or what is rapped tightly around our present view of the world is most powerful. On this day it was these flowers in their vase
Here is an image of the painting in context.
The bouquets of flowers were purchased as the finishing touch for our participation in the local home and garden show. This seems on the surface to be fairly straight forward decision. They are beautiful so why not paint them? But this is not a reason for painting – as many things are beautiful and I have no interest in painting them.
I now know that I wanted to paint them because these bouquets of flowers signify a transition point or milestone in my life as part of our Mayne Island community. For a bit of background, our home was built by a brilliant woman who accomplished the task by doing workshops. Many people in our community participated in the completion of our home. Though a newly completed home it was already well-loved before we ever entered the picture. So in many ways we have been hosted by our home in our community for the past five years.
When I went to pick up these flowers the Farm Gate Store they were not yet ready. So I went with the owner, Shanti McDougall, to their farm with my box of vases. I then went along with her while she picked these flowers. She arranged them on her big kitchen table. We chatted the whole time and these flowers carry the warmth, passion and love of being on this planet together with such beauty and abundance of that moment. I left with these huge vases of flowers thinking about how much I have become part of the community where I have lived over the past few years.
Then the next day more than 125 people came through our home and garden. The flowers were part of what anchored me in my inner sense of belonging as I open up our private space – our home – to the public. Our relationship to our home had shifted. We were now equal partners in hosting. We are now part of our community and no longer guests.
My painting of these flowers is a way of marking that transition. This is why the vase of flowers “must” be painted.
There is more about the actual painting process including work in progress images on my Creative Potager post “In the PINKS and other rose painting efforts.”
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An interview with Terrill Welch by Charles van Heck
Every once in a long while someone reaches out and gently grasps your elbow to steer you over to a quiet spot where they can ask evocative questions. Such has been my experience in being interviewed by writer Charles van Heck! When someone is really listening in a deep and meaningful way I often have lots to say – so this in not a short read. However, I hope you will find it an interesting one. Enjoy!
Impression and Perspectives from Mayne Island
An Interview with Terrill Welch
at Whitman Pond Charles van Heck – Woodhull Arts Journal
Whitman Pond is the website of poet and author, Charles van Heck. Welcome to Whitman Pond, a fictional place that has had a long gestation.
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Squared to the Sea – new painting series by Terrill Welch
Themes often emerge when an artist is painting that then become conscious explorations. Such is the case with my latest series of paintings “Squared to the Sea” which began to appear a little over a year ago. The series is likely not finished as I still have some square canvas in the studio. I will add new ones over time as they are completed. Yet it seemed like time to introduce the work as group.
The square is a challenging composition to bring to life with intrigue and interest. I have been drawn to the challenge and the idea and with my ongoing love of the sea it seemed like a worthy exploration. The following paintings are organized in a pleasing visual order for your viewing pleasure. Please note, as is often the case before I can present a series, some of these paintings are already part of private collections. However, there are still many that are awaiting homes and I have listed purchase locations after each painting. Enjoy!
ALONE BY THE SEA
Quiet places fill a deep well within. East Point on Saturna Island is one of Canada’s newest national parks. This scene would be most recognizable to anyone who had walked out to the end of the point during a low tide and then turned to look back towards land. Alone By The Sea is a long way from lonely on this warm sunny August afternoon with a cool breeze coming in off the water.
20 x 20 inch oil on canvas – available at Xanadu Studio Gallery HERE.
SPILLING OVER
An ideal accent for a contemporary room with its soft tones. The movement of the water in this piece gives it strength beyond its size and allows the painting to provide both peace and energy.
12 x 12 inch oil on canvas – available at Artsy Home Gallery HERE.
A SUMMER DAY
There is something special about a summer day and the sea and a paint brush.
8 x 8 inch oil on canvas – in a private collection British Columbia, Canada.
GRAY ON GRAY IN BLUE
The gray on a plein air painting day can be powerful with a quiet compelling beauty.
12 x 12 inch oil on canvas – in private collection Ontario Canada.
COASTAL WINTER STORM
As I stepped out in the dark on our side deck to hand grind my morning coffee beans, fine snow brushed my cheeks. It smelt of winter and reminded me of damp wool and hot chocolate. It was time to paint.
12 x 12 inch oil on canvas – available at Artsy Home HERE.
SKY CLEARING
A small painting that carries more than its square inch weight in hope and freshness.
10 x 10 inch oil on canvas - If you are interested in buying this painting and you do not want to wait that long, please feel free to contact Terrill directly.
SUMMER MORNING MIST
The morning and the brush seem to swiftly move together before both have moved on into midday.
10 x 10 inch oil on canvas – in private collection Texas, U.S.A.
WHISPERING
The magic of hearing the sea whispering.
12 x 12 inch oil on gessobord – in private collection British Columbia, Canada.
SEA AND CLOUDS
Sea and clouds need not explanation to enjoy the play of light, colour and freshness.
36 x 36 inch oil on canvas – in private collection British Columbia Canada.
ORANGE SEA
A bold reminder of the many colours of the sea as it reflects the wishes of the sky.
12 x 12 inch oil on gessobord – in private collection British Columbia, Canada.
GREETING DAWN
As the seagull tucks its head around the morning light sings out a warm greeting.
6 x 6 inch oil on gessobord – in private collection South Dakota, U.S.A.
ORCAS IN EVENING
A richly textured impressionist west coast sunset seascape which I actually experienced complete with orcas surfacing in the Strait of Georgia.
12 x 12 inch oil on gessobord – in private collection British Columbia, Canada
PEARS BY THE SEA
This particular kind of lovely pear has been painted and photographed for what seems like forever. They are a powerful symbol of abundance, cultivation or agriculture and culture. I want to marry them – at least for awhile – with the sea because the sea is, at least for me, a symbol of eternal change and continuity. My desire is to go more deeply into our human relationship to our environment. A study of pears by the sea seems like a good place to start as any.
12 x 12 inch oil on canvas - If you are interested in buying this painting and you do not want to wait that long, please feel free to contact Terrill directly.
ROMANCING SUMMER BY THE SEA
There are those mornings in August by the sea where the sun is filtered by mist with a the promise of blue skies seeping into your awaking. Such is this day. Some paintings seem to guide the brush from the first stroke of the underpainting. The canvas, the brush and the artist move across the surface as if choreographed by a grand mistress of creativity. Did this painting come out of some illusive muse? Possibly but it was highly influenced by several known influences. The first being my experience on Saturna Island last summer in August which provided the reference image and essence of a particularly spectacular summer morning on East Point. Secondly, I was reading THE SWAN THIEVES by Elizabeth Kostova. If you have read the book you will know how deeply the sea, romance and painting are part of its gift to the reader. Finally, just before beginning this painting I was in an art gallery in Sidney B.C. Canada and admiring an artist hand-embellished reproduction of “Evening thoughts” by Italian artist Pino Daeni. I have seen an original Pino painting several times and reproductions many times. But this time I was admiring how he might accomplish that sensual mystery in his work. Then I asked myself, could I possibly capture this in a landscape, particularly one I loved and already could sense its sensual presence. Of course my figure does not have flowing dresses. She is a strong muscular modern woman with little to give her gender away until you see her smile that touches her lightly around her eyes. But this won’t happen today. Today, we admire her, head tilted down as she walks over the sandstone enjoying the summer morning mist in August by the sea.
30 x 30 inch oil on canvas – available at Xanadu Gallery Studio HERE.
THE SEA TO ME
Lusty dank seaweed brings its dark beauty to the summer sandstone shores along the inside passage on Saturna Island. My hand remembers. – defining the sea and softening the mountains into a grander relationship between sea and sky – closing in the view and leaving a sense of more to see beyond the edges of the canvas.
12 12 inch oil on canvas – in private collection British Columbia, Canada.
It is often difficult to decide at what point to show a body of work. When I feel I am closer to completing my exploration of this subject matter I hope to put this work together in a catalog or art book. For now, I hope you have enjoyed this expanse of time as expressed through these paintings.
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KEEPING WATCH
Original 36 X 24 inch 0il painting on gallery quality cotton canvas. KEEPING WATCH
Purchase price $2,420.00 and is now SOLD
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