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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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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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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From 10 – 5 Thursday to Monday, February 7, 2023 to April 17, 2023 the ISLAND TIME ART room at 492 Dalton Road on Mayne Island in British Columbia, Canada will present “Beyond” with original paintings of various sizes by Jody Waldie, Jennifer Peers, Glenda King, Maeva Lightheart and Terrill Welch. In this diverse show, most of these recent paintings are slightly beyond the usual expressions for each painter with many leaning towards abstraction and one towards extreme realism. These works are outliers or works from the margins of these artists which are being given space to be seen and appreciated.
Take a quick one minute video tour through the room…
These artworks can also be viewed and purchased online from one of our private viewing room at:
Each show is carefully selected and curated by artist and gallery owner Terrill Welch for consideration by the gallery’s local and international art collectors.
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ArtWork Archiveoriginal paintings and acrylic sketches currently available
We are starting to stir out of our winter cozy season by featuring Mayne Island Landscape paintings by Terrill Welch in our unique gallery pod in the woods at 428 Luff Rd, Mayne Island BC. No arrangements or appointments are necessary. We are boldly going forward with DAILY OPEN hours from 11-4 everyday starting today, January 22, 2023. Since our Terrill Welch Gallery Pod has the option of walk in self-browsing with a QR card for purchase links in our online gallery, we can do this! So we are! There is a phone number for additional assistance and Terrill will come say “hello” in person if she is available. Either way, stay as long as you like and enjoy the paintings.
Terrill Welch Gallery Pod at 428 Luff Rd, Mayne Island BC
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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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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New show in the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod opening today October 6 and showing through to October 31, 2022. Self browsing available in person from 11-4, Thursday through Monday, at 428 Luff Rd., Mayne Island B.C. or online in our private viewing room HERE.
This show is primarily Terrill Welch’s Red Line Series which began in 2021 as a way for her to be personably accountable for noticing the impacts on our environment while holding the tension between the grandness and beauty during the destruction of our landscape.
Artist notes about the Red Line Series: Sea levels rise, damage from storm surges increase, wild fire smoke gives us deep orange moonrises, glaciers in the mountains melt endangering our freshwater supply and we are running out of suitable sand to make cement as we mine the landscape relentlessly for its resources. I could paint stunning landscapes for the next twenty years. But, in a way, they would be a lie, denying the pain and lump in my throat as I walk amongst the trees. Right now, painting only such paintings of bliss seem irresponsible, an unacceptable personal denial. So I went to work to find a more honest way to render my experiences.
Smaller paintings by Terrill Welch are also included outside of this series plus two guest paintings by Jennifer Peers.
Please call, text or use our inquiry option for assistance or to make purchasing arrangements. Thank you for visiting the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod and enjoying our self browsing experience.
Again, feel free to view online in our private viewing room HERE.
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ONLINE GALLERIES include –
ArtWork Archiveoriginal paintings and acrylic sketches currently available
Self browsing is available in our well ventilated Terrill Welch Gallery Pod and it is open today between 11-4 and each day through to Monday at 428 Luff Rd on Mayne Island, BC and day trips are pleasant adventures from Southern Vancouver Island to Mayne Island. Or with reservations, come to the island from anywhere for a few days during the golden days of September.
Our location is marked on Google maps and on the Mayne Island Chamber map that is a available on BC Ferries and at various location on the island.
There are discrete road signs starting at the beginning of Wood Dale Dr. near the ferry terminal. Also, there is a detailed map with directions on our website at: https://terrillwelchartist.com/terrill-welch-gallery/
We look forward to seeing you!
In addition, an private viewing room provides quick online access to current paintings showing in the Terrill Welch Gallery pod for your browsing and purchasing pleasure HERE.
Never Miss the Good bits! Sign Up Now for the curated editorial Terrill Welch newsletter HERE published on the 1st Friday of every month.
ONLINE GALLERIES include –
ArtWork Archiveoriginal paintings and acrylic sketches currently available
