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Open now — Terrill Welch, Five Seasons MA Fine Art Final Show

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With a drum roll and as much fanfare as Canadians can manage, on behalf of our group show — FIVE SEASONS MA Fine Art Final Show is now open!

Close Encounters at the Tideline: selected paintings in Terrill Welch’s nature-centric, reparative seafloor series’ is an individual online exhibition that is part of the FIVE SEASONS, MA Fine Art Final Show with the Open College of the Arts university in England. The FIVE SEASONS, MA Fine Art Final Show features artists Kate Aimson, David Crawford, Murray Hamilton, Maggie Taylor and Terrill Welch. 

View of two paintings in ‘Close Encounters at the Tideline’ exhibition shown in the Terrill Welch Gallery physical space.

Visit the full online show that is available on a separate page of this website, complete with links to the other individual exhibition and the landing page that is on the Open College of Arts website:

Terrill Welch Five Seasons MA Fine Art Final Show

Please join us for a ‘Meet the Artist’ zoom call formal presentation September 17, 2026 by registering (please take note the time difference for your location as the 18:00 is BST time and it will be 10:00 am PST) at:

https://www.ocasa.org.uk/event-details-registration/five-seasons-oca-ma-fine-art-final-show

The Terrill Welch Gallery Pod is also presenting all seven of the Close Encounter at the Tideline paintings along with additional work from the seafloor series for viewing in person. 

https://www.artworkarchive.com/rooms/terrill-welch/59ce84

Please note, we will be changing the accessibility to the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod to “by appointment” following the long weekend in September until at least the beginning of the long weekend in May 2027. If you do wish to drop by at your leisure to walk in and self-browse the physical gallery without an appointment, this will only be available for a few more weeks and then an appointment will be necessary for the next several months over the fall, winter and early spring. 

Other than this, feel free to drop in to the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod if you are on island or take the time to browse my full online gallery as you wish:

Online Art Gallery for Terrill Welch Paintings

DIRECT FROM THE ARTIST

I invite you to celebrate with me all those many months of long hours and hard work! I am thrilled to be able to present my solo exhibition within this final group show for my MA Fine Art degree which brings this programme to completion. Thank you to all my art collectors and serious fans for your ongoing engagement with this work over the past two years. Your support and encouragement has been most appreciated! 

Warm regards as always 

Terrill Welch

Best 14 of 30 Terrill Welch Paintings in 2025

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We found it hard choosing just twelve best contemporary landscape paintings by Terrill Welch for this past year. We eventually succumbed to a choice of fourteen from the thirty paintings completed and released 2025. Here is the chosen collection, in no particular order shown to scale in a digital gallery room view. 

This self-directed reparative artist’s journey with the Salish Sea at the tideline has been the foundation of Terrill Welch’s theory and research development towards a MA in Fine Art that she will complete at the end of July 2026. These paintings are the ones she has chosen to best represent her painting journey during 2025. Her theoretical studies and research methods for exploring, taking risks and examining the Seafloor at the tideline of what is now called Mayne Island continue to unravel and make visible why she paints what she does in the way that she does. We hope this is helpful to your viewing of this work and understanding why she is excited about sharing it with you. 

For this year’s best paintings we are also providing a YouTube video summary narrated by Terrill to provide contextual background about her creative process along with these paintings at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eguCmeUZjqw

In addition, here is a link to a private viewing room for further detailed exploration and enjoyment! In this viewing room each painting has artist notes that will tell you more about the work at:

https://www.artworkarchive.com/rooms/terrill-welch/bd02d1

And Happy New Year and all the best of 2026!

Sincerely,

The Terrill Welch Gallery Team

“I am a painter connecting art and nature one brushstroke at a time.” ~ Terrill Welch

ONLINE GALLERIES include –

ArtWork Archive  – original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

Newsletter, New Terrill Welch Painting Releases, Act Now

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We are excited to share our upcoming “Terrill Welch paintings” special offer. But not quite yet! First things first. You will want to be sure you are signed up for our newsletter. This is where all of the details will eventually become available later in June 2024.

“Wind and Sea” by Terrill Welch 11 x 14 inch acrylic on birch board.

Newsletter: If you not already, become a complimentary subscriber today! Our national and international art collectors of “Terrill Welch paintings” are in the know about our personalized and boutique browsing and art purchasing services. They receive our complimentary quarterly issue of “A Brush with Life” and bonus a monthly feature painting email. As well, some of our art collectors have a paid subscription to “Terrill Welch by herself” which provides first availability to purchase new “Terrill Welch paintings.” But this is not all! On extremely rare occasions, Terrill Welch has a special offer on her paintings for a limited time. This time that offer begins during the third week in June. The only way to learn about the details of this offer is by being one of her complimentary “A Brush with Life” newsletter subscribers. 

“Red Line Midden” by Terrill Welch 16 x 12 inch acrylic oil and bone china on cradled birch panel.

New Terrill Welch Painting Releases: Each year Terrill Welch releases between 30 and 40 new paintings of various sizes from large 60 x 40 inch paintings to small 8 x 10 inch painting sketches. Already this year 16 new paintings have become available. View all currently available in our online gallery at:

https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/terrill-welch/portfolio

The catch is that half to two-thirds of these works also go into art collections each year.

Terrill often scrambles to keep ahead of demand and seldom does commission work. She is focused on her own painting practice exploration into the demands on our landscape and honing our appreciation and familiarity with our natural world. 

Act Now: If you think you might like to be one of these subscribers, act now. Subscribe up at: https://terrill-welch.ghost.io

It is this easy and you are going to be in great company. Terrill’s “A Brush with Life” much-loved complimentary newsletter has published 130 issues and has 70-80 percent open rate by a dedicated growing following. 

What else can we say? – if you are a serious fan or art collector of “Terrill Welch paintings” just do it! Sign up to receive our complimentary newsletter and keep your finger on the pulse of Terrill Welch’s painting career. You will be glad you did. We know you will because this is what our art collectors tell us – often! 

Please feel free to leave a comment or contact us if you have any questions or if we can assist you in any way at all. 

Sincerely,

The Terrill Welch Gallery Team

“I am a landscape painter connecting art and nature one brushstroke at a time.” ~ Terrill Welch

ONLINE GALLERIES include –

ArtWork Archive  – original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

ARTSY with the International Opulent Art Gallery in the United Kingdom – representing select paintings

An Art Collector’s Joy

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This week, these two Terrill Welch paintings are winging their way to a special home in Alberta, Canada. With gratitude, we offer congratulations to the art collector who is celebrating a milestone as she reaches towards her vision! When we asked the art collector about their selection of these two paintings, they replied that they were following their joy. Doesn’t that make you smile? 

SOLD – “Wabi Sabi Alley in Venice” by Terrill Welch, 20 x 16 inch oil on canvas.

Artist notes: Finding a quiet alley in Venice is not as easy as one might think. But over somewhere around the big fish market and then just a few more twist and turns and we are here. Window shutters slap open to the late morning while the clicking of shoes echo into the distance. The warmth softly radiates back to us off of the brick walls where the deep shade is still cool and welcoming. Venetia Italia, how many have wander into this wabi sabi alley of yours?

SOLD – “Future Fragments Study” by Terrill Welch, 10 x 8 inch acrylic and oil on gessobord.

Artist notes: I walked and wondered about what will remain as future fragments to rebuild upon? Will there be another fragile sense of wholeness and interwoven harmony? What did it feel like then? What does it feel like now? Are any bits reusable?

Here are the two paintings together shown in the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod…


Enjoy your weekend and if you happen to be in Sidney British Columbia, there is a Regional Southern Gulf Island show opening at the ArtSea Gallery at 9565 5th St. from 2-4 and after this, the show will be available for viewing 10 – 4 every day until May 11th. There is work in this show by our gallery artists Glenda King, Maeva Lightheart, Jody Waldie and Terrill Welch.

Also, the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod is open daily from 11-4 at 428 Luff Rd. on Mayne Island in British Columbia, Canada. All current paintings showing can always be viewed in our private viewing room at: https://www.artworkarchive.com/rooms/terrill-welch/59ce84

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ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

New Terrill Welch by herself Publication

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Now published….. Terrill Welch by herself – Issue #5 Night Paintings and Spring Mud

“With fear in my eyes, I would look up and see a clattering snowshoe-removing mosquito about the size of a small elephant becoming airborne. I knew from experience that it was heading straight for any of my delicate exposed skin….” continued at the link below once you have subscribed…

https://terrill-welch.ghost.io/terrill-welch-by-herself-issue-5-night-paintings-and-spring-mud/

Published on the 3rd Friday of each month “Terrill Welch by herself” is a new adventure in this paid subscription that accompanies my free “A Brush with Life” that is published on the 1st Friday of each month.

In addition to first access to many of my paintings, there are often stories, behind the scenes observation about my painting practice, sections on what I am watching and reading and anything else that seems important to share in my creative world.

It is a way to read my original content and learn about my original paintings without screen interruption or distractions. In this way, ”Terrill Welch By herself” is more like an eclectic book with pop-ups than anything else. I love curating and publishing each issue of both publications but “Terrill Welch by herself” has that extra rare undefinable something in its process.

If you haven’t checked out these publications yet, I encourage you to do so. Enjoy!

Terrill 👩‍🎨🎨❤️

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ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

West Coast Sea Escape Show

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As the spring days really begin, we have a new “West Coast Sea Escape” show with paintings by Terrill Welch in the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod, OPEN DAILY 11-4 with extended hours 10-4 for the Made on Mayne Spring Tour April 7th – 8th at 428 Luff Rd, Mayne Island B.C. We look forward to your visits both online and in person to enjoy these seascape paintings that are showing until May 17, 2023 in our unique gallery pod in the woods.

Slipping out to the gallery pod every morning, we make sure everything is ready for your self browsing visit. If we are available, we do come out and say “hello”. However, the gallery pod is designed for walk in viewing and you are encouraged to go in and explore the art on your own. There are lists of artwork, QR codes to request purchase and telephone numbers to text or call for assistance.


The seascape painting “China Beach in Late February” on the top right is new and this is its first time being in a show. China Beach is on the southwest tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia.


We are thrilled to have the large 40 x 60 inch seascape painting of Active Pass anchoring this show across the back of the gallery pod. The city seascape to its right is a newer painting interpreting a location in the Victoria B.C. area. 


These landscape paintings of the sea remind us of our constant relationship with both continuity and change with beginnings and endings overlapping in endless rhythms.

Here is a link to our private online gallery viewing room that shares current paintings showing in the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod https://www.artworkarchive.com/rooms/terrill-welch/59ce84

Enjoy and feel free to share with your family and friends. Bring them by to experience this unique gallery space that is here to warmly welcome you. 

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ONLINE GALLERIES include –

ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

Best 12 out of 32 New Terrill Welch Paintings in 2022

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Each year I like to review which are my best paintings painted and released in that calendar year. Sometimes this selection is easy and other times it can be more challenging to decide. This is a more challenging review of 32 new paintings in 2022 with a wider range than usual of approaches. However, a decision has been made! I ended up choosing 10 paintings, including a diptych, and one bonus painting. (So there are 12 separate canvases in total)

View all paintings in detail from our online private viewing room at: https://www.artworkarchive.com/rooms/terrill-welch/a5a548

Please note that many of these paintings have already sold and are in private collections. However there are still a few excellent works to choose from and, with a bit of luck, more will be coming available in 2023.

Now I am off to consider my intention for 2023 and my new series “Thriving in Place”. More soon!

Happy New Year!

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For The Love Of Trees and More

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The Terrill Welch Gallery pod has a new show with additional works showing exclusively online for your browsing and purchasing pleasure between November 3 and November 28, 2022. “For the Love of Trees” includes a selection of Terrill Welch’s tree paintings and a guest tree painting by Glenda King. Visiting this unique gallery space, tucked into the woods at 428 Luff Road on Mayne Island, is becoming a travel destination for the gallery’s art collectors, fans and island visitors. All artworks in each current show can also be viewed with additional information and purchased online in our private viewing room HERE.

The gallery pod space is purposefully designed for self-browsing with assistance upon request and is open 11-4 Thursday through Monday and closed Tuesday and Wednesday unless arrangements are made in advance. (The container gallery space was built by West Coast Container Homes on Vancouver Island.)

Opening today “For The Love Of Trees” is our third show that we have curated in this new gallery space since the beginning of September. If a large gallery space were like a novel, then the gallery pod’s modest size is like poetry. There is a desire and a need to make each painting exactly the right choice in precisely the right position with no more and no less artworks than what is necessary to complete each show. Poetry, yes?

Keeping the walls for artwork only, a price list with descriptions and additional information is available on a chair for visitors to discover more about specific paintings that are of interest.

The painting on the left is by Glenda King and is titled “Look Way Up”.

In most shows there is a guest painting by a fellow island artist to accompany Terrill Welch’s artwork. These artists also show with her in a second location, ISLAND TIME ART, which is located near the ferry terminal on Mayne Island at 492 Dalton Drive.

The differences between the two show spaces are subtle and yet intentional. Paintings selected for the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod are usually landscape paintings and mostly larger artworks by Terrill Welch with a few smaller pieces included as space allows. ISLAND TIME ART has mostly smaller original paintings by various artists including Terrill Welch and reproductive prints and useable art products by only Terrill Welch that are suitable for gifts and collecting holiday memories. Many people visit both locations and some just one or the other depending on their needs and interests.

But let’s get back to “For The Love Of Trees” which is a long standing passion subject for contemporary landscape painter Terrill Welch.

The tree painting subjects in this show range from Fremont in California to the Stuart River in north central British Columbia with many located on Mayne Island on the southwest coast of Canada. There are willows, polars, firs and arbutus trees as well as a winter scene painted plein air in the snow at the Mayne Island Japanese Memorial Garden. Each tree or clump of trees is painted as if they were sitting for a portrait or telling us a story about their lives while we listen intently.

We wish you much enjoyment and discover about each of these paintings of trees that will be part of the Made on Mayne Tour from November 11-13, 2022. You do not need to wait though and as mentioned above, you can slip in to see this new show starting today or view “For The Love Of Trees” online HERE.

In addition, we would like to extend a thank you to Island Art Magazine for including “Winter with the Old Fir on the Ridge” that is in this current show on page 20 of the magazine’s November publication. We smiled when we saw it placed next to a a short article about the difference between Monet and Manet.

The complete online publication can be viewed HERE and if you love art, and Canadian art in particular, you will enjoy the read.

On a final note, we would like to congratulate our art collectors on the purchase of a commissioned 20 x 24 inch oil painting “Cotswolds Memories” by Terrill Welch.

SOLD – “Cotswolds Memories” by Terrill Welch

Artist notes: This painting is a rare collaboration starting with an art collector’s image. Much research, my own memories of painting in England and plain imagination went into this homage to a fascinating mackerel sky.

And with this, we shall conclude our gallery update for now. Please do contact us if you have any questions or special requests. We are always happy to assist if we can.

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Terrill Welch Gallery Spotlight on artist Jody Waldie 

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Jody Waldie has a wide range of subjects rendered mostly in oils on her canvases. There is something about standing in front of one of her works that tells you that each brushstroke has been thoughtfully considered and then applied freely without constraint. I have had the pleasure of seeing her develop an artwork from sketches, colour studies and underpaintings with each stage resolving additional painting challenges that all painters must face if they want to keep developing their work.

A viewer can witness the strong bones in a finished painting of her drawing skills that underly her vision for a piece. We are fortunate to currently have three of her paintings showing between the two Terrill Welch Gallery spaces. 

ISLAND TIME ART is showing “Autumn Bouquet” and 

“Strawberry in Sunshine” 

in the physical art room and online HERE until October 17, 2022.

In addition, the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod has the pleasure of hosting the guest painting “Winter Walk on Glen Echo Trail” by Jody Waldie in the physical gallery and online HERE until October 3, 2022. 

Also, Jody Waldie has a feature interview by Cherie Thiessen in the September/October 2022, vol 17, issue 5, of the AQUA GULF ISLANDS LIVING magazine on pages 20-21 if you wish to learn more about the life of this Mayne Island artist. 

We invite you to enjoy these paintings in person or in our online gallery as much as we do and possibly consider adding one to your art collection.

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ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

New Mayne Island Gallery in the Woods

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Once upon a time there was a Canadian contemporary landscape painter, Terrill Welch, who needed to create a new gallery space on small rural Mayne Island on the southwest coast of Canada, right in the middle of everywhere. She thought and thought and considered and then considered some more. It was the end of October 2021. The commercial space that she had rented since the summer of 2017 in Miners Bay was closing and she needed to secure a new show space for her paintings and those of the other artists she is showing with the gallery. What could she do? Commercial space was extremely limited. In a swish of inspiration during a sleepless night, she had an idea. Terrill thought “what if I was to use a small container designed for this specific purpose and placed it at the our front gate?” 

Following a faint trail of internet crumbs, she found the website of West Coast Container Homes. They were making “Office Pods” close by on Vancouver Island. One look at these and it wasn’t even a stretch to imagining a Gallery Pod. So, after a couple of design conversations with founder Adam Benning, followed by a few weeks of a special offer of paintings to the gallery’s generous art collectors, the funding was secured for this new adventure and it was scheduled for creation. With supply chains being what they are, we did have a wee bit of a delay. However, our new Gallery Pod arrived mid August 2022 and is sporting its first show. Come have a look! 

There are smaller paintings near the entrance…

Then larger paintings farther along. All of these paintings are by Terrill Welch, except the guest painting on the left in this image which is the work of fellow painter Jody Waldie.

The painting on the far wall is of a view at Trafalgar Park lookout along King George Terrace in Victoria, British Columbia. We decided it was the perfect summer painting to open the first show.

Of course, no Mayne Island inspired landscape painter would open a new gallery space without offering paintings of arbutus trees and the Salish Sea.

There it is! Our first show in our new Terrill Welch Gallery Pod is ready for your visit!

Feel free to take a candy from the mug, sign the guest book, leave your email address if you wish to receive our newsletter and take a business card to further explore our paintings online at your leisure.

The official opening is 11-4 Thursday, September 1st through Tuesday September 6th, when we will have both the Gallery Pod and the Home Studio open for walk in visitors. After the special opening days, the Gallery Pod will be open during the fall shoulder season for walk-in 11-4, Thursday through Monday or by arrangement on other days. The Home Studio will remain open by advanced arrangement or impromptu visits if it is possible. However, if you are in the neighbourhood between now and the official opening days, it is possible to visit the Gallery Pod immediately. We will turn the lights on and put the “OPEN” sign out from 11-4 each day. 

The road signs will be put up soon as well. There are directions on our website with a map for finding your way to the Gallery Pod and Home Studio at 428 Luff Rd, Mayne Island HERE. This map also shows where to find our other Terrill Welch Gallery adventure – the ISLAND TIME ART room located at 492 Dalton Dr. in the Dragonfly that is in the blue building above the ferry terminal in Village Bay. ISLAND TIME ART offers smaller original paintings and usable art such as totes, aprons, greeting cards, coasters, zipper pouches and more. Between the two locations we can offer great options to consider for your art collection and gift giving needs. 

We are totally thrilled with the outcome and so are our first gallery visitors. You will have to come see for yourself or we can do a video or FaceTime visit for you. It will be fun. Browsing is encouraged. 

Do let us know if you have any questions. We are always happy to assist. 

Thank you for your interest and all the best of today!

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ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available