On a rare snow day, the whites reach for colour through the fog over at the field with the red gate on Mayne Island, British Columbia Canada. Please do feel free to walk into this southwest coast contemporary landscape painting and stay awhile. The 1.5 inch edges of this work are painted and no framing is necessary.
Update July 18, 2014 : This painting is now in a private collection and no longer available.
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Without a doubt, it is the Canadian west coast landscape that is the primary muse of artist Terrill Welch. However this does not preclude the occasional still life painting. Most frequently these are rendered during the ripening of summer. But deep in the heart of winter there is also a spark that can whisk her brush across a canvas.
There is a roundness of shapes in the warm winter light that is drifting through the kitchen while paint remains paint.
BOWL OF WINTER FRUIT 12 x 16 inch oil on canvas
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These three recent paintings are mostly sky with the sea playing an important but supporting role in the landscape composition. Due to the similarity of subject and the orientation of the viewer, they are being released together.
The first contemporary landscape painting captures dusk on the winter west coast of Canada sea with clouds washed in colour.
ALMOST HOME 14 x 18 inch oil on canvas
The second painting tells the story about how the fog has been hesitant to raise her skirts resulting in a poem to accompany the work.
PROMISE
The fog has been hesitant to raise her skirts much above her knees on the island ridges. We can’t really blame her.
After all, we have been gawking without shame, seeking even the tiniest glimpse of blue sky and sunlight between her cottony ruffles.
Today though, within the deep winter quiet, we are given brief moments of reprieve from her dowdy grey garments. It was not a dazzling display but enough to leave us momentarily content, hopeful even.
PROMISE 12 x 16 inch oil on canvas
The third and final painting renders a storm as it breaks in the late afternoon sky leaving behind a rainbow mountain and pink sky.
RAINBOW MOUNTAIN PINK SKY 16 X 20 oil on canvas.
Each painting has been approached to bring you into the landscape, experience its fullness and moment of wonder. Their simplicity of structure is purposeful and a deliberate intention to ask for your pause and reflection on the landscape as you pass through a time of contemporary busyness.
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Three new paintings by artist Terrill Welch are now available.
The first is a large size painting that is 3 feet high and six feet long. The heavy ink blue of the dark sea rolls grand waves against the sandstone rocks as breaking clouds answer to the west coast blues. This is a large contemporary landscape painting which brings a view of the sea to any room that it is in.
The second is a small 10 by 8 inch oil on canvas. I looked out the window as the sun arrived in the valley. My brushes were still out and there was a ground dry and waiting on a small canvas. Morning as it greets this fir tree is rendered for future reference.
MORNING GREETS FIR TREE STUDY
The third and final release is a 12 x 12 inch oil on gessobord with a 2 inch wood cradle. Exercising a passion for colour and shadow this dramatic still life is filled with hope and possibility.No framing required and ready to hang on your chosen wall.
FRUITS OF LABOUR
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The continuous motion of the winds and the sea stir sea-spray high up onto the cliffs above. I want that. I want that feeling of stirring and motion. With as few brushstrokes as possible on this large canvas, I want us to be slightly queasy from it as we are swayed in the waters and crash against the rocks within our viewing of this painting.
STORM WATCHING 30 x 40 inch oil on canvas
Contemporary as this painting is, if J.M.W. Turner (1775 – 1851) comes to mind you can be forgiven because, without any reference to the artist in my original post, his name appeared on the recommended tag list. I have therefore included a few links to his work in the related articles section below for your reading pleasure.
Also, there is a detailed in-progress post on my Creative Potager blog HERE which includes reference images from my photography shoot that inspired this painting.
UPDATED OCTOBER 13, 2014: Short video (less than six minutes) where Terrill Welch talks about this painting and the intentions behind her work.
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On this Christmas Eve day off the southwest coast of Canada it seems the right painting to share and release as it is fa work filled with memories.
A TALL TALE OF AUTUMN STUART RIVER – 16 x 12 inch oil on canvas
These are my childhood trees – popular trees growing on the riverbank. They are my first subject of paintings. I cannot pick up a brush to render them without being transported back through time with its many stops before these trees. These are trees I met before there was even a field in front of them. These are trees I introduced my first lover and later others. Then much later my now husband. These are trees I walked beside while I carried my babies and then with them while they carried theirs. These are the trees that my mother and father have walked with me since they were younger than I am today. Painting the spaces of light and shadow in between is filled with the residue of many visits. It is a tall tale that gets taller with each telling. All I intended to do was to use up the paint leftover on the palette.
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Loosely referencing a Mayne Island farm, this painting of west coast fog stirs our imagination. There is a sense that if we look away the fog will have enveloped the whole scene leaving us with only grey shadows of shapes. The distant ferry whistle might sound as it enters Active Pass and we will peer into the place that was visible only seconds before, waiting.
The painting is oil on gessobord with a two-inch wood cradle. No frame is necessary. The hanging wire is attached and it is ready to place on the wall.
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Low November light drifts across the large rocks from the south. The warm hues gather further visual warmth from the Arbutus trees beside the trail.
ARBUTUS BY THE TRAIL 8 x 10 inch oil on canvas
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The loose and strong impressionist style brushstrokes of this study give a clear sense of the swiftly moving winter light in the briefest of moments. If we are to blink the moment the will pass and the forest would again be shrouded in the dull greys predominant during a west coast winter. This painting in a reminder that there are moments with dazzling magic in this winter rain forest. We just need to catch them.
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With November winter weather settling it, this landscape is a pleasant escape.
The harsh summer late morning light has the ocean and distant islands playing second fiddle to the dark dank seaweed-draped sandstone reefs. Yet, the music of a summer sea is played with its usual robust notes.
AUGUST MORNING REEF BAY 11 x 14 inch oil on canvas
With heavy coastal rain just starting to ease it seems a perfect time to release this warm and vibrant still life painting. This 16 x 20 inch oil on canvas painting is a study of whites and how they are always leaning towards one colour or another. The tastes, smells and texture of this still life slid onto the canvas in loose wet-on-wet brushstrokes.
PITCHER APPLES PEARS Update: June 12, 2015. This work is no longer available as it has been revisited. There is more about this painting’s work in progress on the Creative Potager post “In the Art Studio Still Life Painting”
