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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

Bouquets of Time: Featuring Still Life paintings by Terrill Welch

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Join us for a remarkable artistic experience at the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod, located at 428 Luff Rd, Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada. The gallery proudly presents the “Bouquets of Time” exhibition, showcasing the enchanting world of still life paintings by renowned artist Terrill Welch. This evocative exhibition opens on Friday, September 13, 2024, and will be available for walk-in self-browsing daily from 11 AM to 4 PM.

The centerpiece of this event is Terrill Welch’s new “Summer of Flowers” series, a captivating collection inspired by the bouquets purchased bi-weekly from a local farmer. This artistic collaboration with nature introduces an element of chance and spontaneity, ensuring that each piece within the series exudes a unique charm reflective of the floral bounty available at the moment of creation. These paintings are imbued with the vibrancy and freshness of summer, inviting viewers to bask in their warmth and beauty.

Additionally, the exhibition features a selection of Terrill Welch’s still life paintings, depicting fruits and flowers from as far back as 2012. These works provide a well-rounded view of the artist’s evolving style and enduring fascination with the bounty of nature. Enhancing the exhibition further are two newly debuted shell paintings and three plein air landscape paintings, providing a delightful contrast and expansion to the floral theme.

In total, 24 paintings are on display, including 21 oil paintings on canvas and linen board, and three plein air paintings in acrylic on board. Each piece offers a glimpse into the artist’s meticulous process and keen eye for detail, resulting in a collection that is both cohesive and dynamic.

Don’t miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant, sun-drenched world of Terrill Welch’s “Bouquets of Time” exhibition. Experience the delicate interplay of chance and artistry that brings each painting to life and discover the timeless beauty found within the simple elegance of flowers and fruits.

Mark your calendars and make your way to the Terrill Welch Gallery Pod starting September 13, 2024, to explore this radiant celebration of summer through the eyes of a masterful artist.

More about the show is available in our private viewing room at: 

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

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

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

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

Featuring Mayne Island Landscape Paintings

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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

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.

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 Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

Redbubble painting and photography prints and merchandise

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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ONLINE GALLERIES include –

ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

Mostly The Red Line Series

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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.

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 Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

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.

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 Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

A Weekend Gallery Get Away Visit

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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 Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

Seven Savvy Reasons to Purchase a Terrill Welch Painting Right Now

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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.

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 Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available