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:
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:
The 2024 painting year has seen Terrill Welch develop two new series with fewer than usual landscape paintings completed in her more familiar compositions. The “Summer of Flowers” series is vibrant, colourful and exudes joy and resilience while the “Sea Floor Series” has a rhythmic flow that often instils a sense of inner peace and wellbeing. We found it hard to choose just twelve out of the total of 37 new paintings released this year. However, here is our final selection of twelve that can be viewed together with full details at the link below…
Or, please feel free to browse our summary reviews for each selected artwork…
“Sea and Seals” by Terrill Welch, 30 x 40 inch oil, ceramic tiles, screws and wire on wood.
Artist notes: It was so cold that ice was about two inches thick on the sandstone and the sea spray was freezing like mist as it was blown across rolling waves. Yet, the seals rested in their usual place. This painting is part of a new series idea that is developing. The paint brush marks are the impressions of nature and the screws, wire and tiles are the intervention by our human species. This work will always interact in noticeable ways with its immediate physical environment through the light, reflections and shadows of the materials. In this way, the painting remains a work-in-progress forever.“Hidden Waterfall Sombrio Beach” by Terrill Welch, 14 x 11 inch acrylic and walnut oil on linen birch board. SOLD.
Artist notes: It is a late morning in mid March with a substantially low tide giving me confidence to go past the cliff on the shore of Sombrio Beach. Crisscrossing and scrambling up the creek a short distance there is a hidden wonder with deep layers of mystery. How might the light fall in this place through out a day and over a year? I shall be back to see again at a different time. I am sure of it!“Red Line Midden” by Terrill Welch, 16 x 12 inch acrylic oil and bone china on cradled birch panel.
Artist notes: Winter storms repeatedly expose more than 4,000 years of Indigenous history over laid by a comparatively brief and recent settler disruption. There is a story in this painting about being witness and holding space for remembrance, observation and most significantly action by drawing attention to these middens.“Strait of Georgia Blues” by Terrill Welch, 11 x 14 inch walnut oil on gessobord.
Artist Notes: An icy northwest wind whips up the Salish Sea in the Strait of Georgia with such playful laughter that I forget that I didn’t put my wool sweater on under my rain jacket. Such abandoned glee can do that.“Early Flowers with Peonies” by Terrill Welch, 11 x 14 inch acrylic and walnut oil on linen covered Birch Wood.
Artist notes: The peonies continue to open as I paint. Could they hear the paint being brushed across the linen? Could they feel their shapes being formed under my hand? Could this have precipitated some desire of their own? Most likely it was the warmth in the art studio. Still, they turned and spiralled with graceful ease. If there is an inner peace to be expanded upon through nature, this seems like a good place to start.“Resting at Edith Point” by Terrill Welch, 22 x 24 inch walnut oil on canvas. SOLD.
Artist notes: A hollowed out driftwood stump frames the morning view during a brief rest before meandering back along the trails.“Soft warmth of Sunday” by Terrill Welch, 11 x 14 inch walnut oil on linen covered birch wood.
Artist notes: As I finish this painting in the soft filtered light of a summer Sunday, the world seems to have shifted just slightly to something brighter and more hopeful.“Sea Floor at Reef Bay” by Terrill Welch, 48 x 40 inch walnut oil on canvas
Artist note: There is a special kind of mysterious intrigue to the land up close at the edge of sea during a low tide. A large macro landscape offers not just a change of perspective but access to a world we likely visit less often as adults… unless in the company of children.“Dancing with Yellow Coneflowers” by Terrill Welch, 11 x 14 inch walnut oil on linen over birch wood.
Artist notes: Coneflowers hover like bumblebees over the soft textured dahlias and flouncing snapdragons. The excitement is palpable. I lay out the pigments and disappear into the shapes and colours of an early October still life.“Varnish Clamshell in the Flow” by Terrill Welch, 8 x 10 inch walnut oil on linen board.
Artist notes: I had gone to Bennett Bay and along the beach to where a seasonal creek was flowing into the sea and washing over seashells along the way. These varnish clamshells created a light musical sound as the water passed over them. The beauty of the shapes and sounds create a textured resonance in my being. For those moments, inner peace is held, in those shapes, in those colours and those sounds. In my painting, I find inner peace in the abstracted loosen of the brushstrokes, gifted to the linen surface without misgivings or hesitation. This is the full body experience I aim to capture in this small painting completed in oil, wet-in-wet, in the studio a month later from when I physically stood on that shore.“Shells Gathering Study” by Terrill Welch, 11 x 14 inch walnut oil on gessobord.
Artist notes: After the storm, interesting broken and worn bits on the sea floor at Reef Bay were arranged by the Salish Sea. I accepted nature’s invitation to explore and discover their shapes and patterns in a delicate collage of reference materials that only become integrated under my brush.“Last of the Season” by Terrill Welch, 11 x 14 inch walnut oil on linen birch wood.
Artist notes: The light has been as heavy as the west coast rains these past few days. I finally was able to lift my brushes and drape pigments onto the linen surface painting alla prima in the studio. There is a sense of impermanence softening the edges in the room. The colours break a part and drift as if the petals have already been released from their stems, hovering in place for a few more brief moments. This is the tenth and last bouquet delivered by the farmer for my series of “Summer of Flowers”.
In summary, 2024 has seen fourteen of Terrill Welch’s paintings join art collectors private collections.
Art collectors have thoughtfully considered and purchased significantly more larger paintings in 2024.
Art collectors have shared Terrill Welch’s paintings with their networks online and brought their friends and family to visit the physical gallery and the Mayne Island Resort where there are over thirty of her paintings exhibited in their lobby and conference rooms.
Art collectors have browsed, generously commented in the gallery guestbook, signed up for Terrill Welch’s newsletter and asked numerous intriguing questions while she has shown them around both the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod and her home studio.
Some paintings have stayed in magnificent homes on Mayne Island.
And some have gone out of country, like this one that has nestled itself into a lovely home in Portland, Oregon.
For all of this, thank you! We do not take your decision to steward one of my paintings for granted – ever! During what has been a challenging year for many, thank you for your continued patronage and may Terrill Welch’s paintings in your art collection bring you many years of viewing pleasure!
On a final note, the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod continues to be open daily 11-4 throughout the year for walk in self-browsing or online at the links provided below. We look forward to seeing or hearing from you again soon!
Happy New Year and may 2025 offer you kindness, generosity, good health and wellbeing!
Sincerely,
The Terrill Welch Gallery Team
“I am a painter connecting art and nature one brushstroke at a time.” ~ Terrill Welch
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“Wind and Sea” by Terrill Welch 11 x 14 inch acrylic on birch board.
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“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:
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.
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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
My hand grips the pliers to loosen the lid on a tube of French Ultramarine and I squeeze it liberally into a mound on the upper left hand side of my palette. It has been a productive month and there has been a lot of squeezing of various pigments suspended in walnut oil. Each of these paintings has a story and the landscapes are all significant and intimately familiar to me. The results are satisfying and I am ready to share them with you.
Our Mayne Island fall tour is again happening this year. It is a weather-dependent event for day visitors from Vancouver Island and Vancouver but still a great day of island meandering if you are game for an adventure.
The Agriculture Hall and our Community Centre both will be bursting with artist and makers as well as many open studios and small galleries to browse. I will have the gallery pod open an extra hour early for the studio tour days starting 10-4 on Friday November 10th and finishing Sunday November 12th. I will have a few studio tour maps available and my regular studio signs will be up so you can find your way. Also, the paintings in the gallery pod will be available for viewing online as usual. Come on by and say “hello” and, with a bit of luck, on the Saturday and Sunday I will also be able to invite you into the house to see the studio area and additional work on show in our home.
The Terrill Welch Gallery Pod is generally open daily from 11-4 at 428 Luff Rd. for walk-in self browsing 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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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
Never Miss the Good bits! Sign Up Now for the curated editorial Terrill Welch newsletter HERE published on the 1st Friday of every month with an optional paid subscription issue “Terrill Welch by herself” also available on the 3rd Friday of each month.
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ArtWork Archiveoriginal paintings and acrylic sketches currently available
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.
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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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)
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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ArtWork Archiveoriginal paintings and acrylic sketches currently available
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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ONLINE GALLERIES include –
ArtWork Archiveoriginal paintings and acrylic sketches currently available
For every purchase, online or in person, of an original Terrill Welch painting during the opening days of Gallery Pod between September 1st and 6th there is a possible savings [NO LONGER AVAILABLE] on your purchase. The amount of your saving will be disclosed on your invoice and has been determined by chance. If you are already a collector of Terrill Welch Gallery paintings, then your art collector savings still applies in addition to our opening savings.
Seven Savvy (and slightly cheeky) Reasons For Purchasing During Our Opening Savings
One – Our home needs a (or another) Terrill Welch painting on that wall. (Of course it does!)
Two – I cancelled one of my trips for this summer. I can do this! (Sorry to hear about your trip but great idea!)
Three – With the current pace of sales for Terrill’s original paintings, the price is going to go up again soon. (Good guess!)
Four – Winter is coming and it will be nice to think about spring/summer/fall on Mayne Island. (Winter comes every year but we never like to argue with our art collectors.)
Five – Artists require our ongoing support to keep bringing us new work. (So very true this!)
Six – It is better than leaving the money in the bank because this way at least I can look at it. (Okay, we’ve heard this one many times but we will let you have it.)
Seven – Because we want to! We don’t even need a reason. (Best reason of all and happy choosing from the 125 painting choices!)
To view all available Terrill Welch Paintings online click HERE.
Tips for browsing: For ease of viewing when you open the portfolio, click on ”available” on the top right. The paintings are presented from largest to smallest. Please note that the following painting is “On Hold” already.
When visiting our physical new Terrill Welch Gallery Pod at 428 Luff Rd, Mayne Island BC, Canada please simply text or call 1 250 744 4560 or come ring the doorbell for assistance if Terrill isn’t already present.
We are open 11-4 everyday through to Tuesday September 6th for our soft opening days. Then we will be open 11-4 Thursday through Monday for the autumn shoulder season and at other times by arrangement. More about our current show is available HERE.
All the best with making your painting purchase decisions. Let us know if we can offer any assistance.
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ArtWork Archiveoriginal paintings and acrylic sketches currently available
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
