Terrill Welch Gallery

Best 12 of 30 New Terrill Welch Paintings in 2023

/ Terrill Welch / 2 Comments

At times, global and personal events in 2023 have left many of us feeling shattered. We may find it difficult to celebrate our wins because our sense of loss can feel greater. However, there are those of us that are tasked with challenging the most difficult of moments through art. Terrill Welch is one of those artist who paints her way through adversity in an attempt to offer hope and possibility for us all. This is how she lives and shows up in the world. 


Each painting year is unique with its own special moments and significant points of celebration. In 2023, Terrill released 30 new paintings and 20 paintings from her inventory of available artwork were acquired by art collectors. Of the 30 new paintings in 2023, Terrill has chosen 12 to represent her best work of the year. Many of these 12 paintings have been completed since September of 2023 and are fresh off of the artist’s easel.


A special thank you to our many art collectors who have purchased paintings in 2023 Your patronage is deeply appreciated! Thank you also to the many serious fans of Terrill Welch’s paintings who have shared her work with family and friends and even strangers. Without your supportive efforts such a broad range of international connections and conversations wouldn’t be possible. 

May we take a moment to pause and celebrate these twelve best paintings in 2023 selected by the artist and available in our private viewing room for your full browsing pleasure at: Best 12 of 30 New Terrill Welch Paintings in 2023.

Thank you for 2023 and we are looking forward to 2024 and wish you all the best for the year ahead! 

Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays!

/ Terrill Welch / Leave a comment

We wish each and every one of you all the very best of the holidays as we hold space for peace and, as always, do what we can.

Last evening my husband, David, and I went to see the lights at our Mayne Island Japanese Memorial Garden. I thought I would share a few memory images with you as my way of adding a little magic to your holidays. This garden has been designed and is maintained and continually developed by volunteers supported through donations. I love coming here any time of year but particularly when the lights are up during the winter holidays.

I find the child in me waking up with wonder in her heart. ❤️

So much care has been taken to enhance the natural beauty of this garden during these sparkly evenings.

The newly painted red bridge couldn’t possibly look any better. Thank you to everyone who is involved in making this special Mayne Island experience happen! Amazing! 

If you happen to be on Mayne Island between now and January 1st, it is worth taking a walk through our magical Mayne Island Japanese Memorial Garden. Open nightly by donation (weather permitting) between 5-7 pm.

Wherever you are, no matter how challenging times may be, I hope you can find a tiny glimpse of magic in an ordinary day.

With warmth and kindness as always,

Terrill 👩‍🎨🎨❤️

P.s. There are new paintings released in the online gallery with more coming in the New Year. The Terrill Welch Gallery Pod show at 428 Luff Rd on Mayne Island is open daily from 11-4 for walk in self-browsing except for Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. I have been update our website and the online gallery can now be found by clicking in the HOME page or the online gallery tab. Two options! Enjoy!

Introducing Just Art Calendar 2024

/ Terrill Welch / Leave a comment

Just the art please! Allow us to turn the page on the first day of each month in the New Year.


UPDATE APRIL 2024: “Just Art Calendar” has been renamed “Feature Painting for (Month Year)”. The impetus for the name change is to more accurately indicate what you are receiving in the email (with no mention of what you might be missing since we have stopped producing calendars 😉).

We are piloting a new idea for 2024. Our relationships with calendars has changed over the years. Most of us now use electronic calendars. Still, we love the art that comes with the more traditional hardcopy calendar where each new month brings with it an image of another artwork. However, galloping inflation has vigorously impacted the printing and shipping costs of such calendars. So we came up with a solution to bring you the best part of our art calendar as a gift! What if we sent all Terrill Welch newsletter subscribers an email with the featured “Terrill Welch painting” on the first day of each month? We think this idea just might become a highly valued addition to your subscription. And there is more…

BONUS: Paid subscription holders to “Terrill Welch by herself” can also request one higher resolution image of a painting that is featured in the Just Art Calendar 2024, at anytime during the calendar year. This image can then be used to purchase a print in a format of their choice at a local print shop for the requester’s personal use. Each request will come with a limited license giving permission for this specific purpose.

How does this sound!? Great idea, right!? 

If you are not already subscribed to our free quarterly “A Brush with Life” do so now to receive your monthly Just Art Calendar 2024 image of a “Terrill Welch painting” in your email inbox as outlined above.


Subscribe at: https://terrill-welch.ghost.io

Please note: If you are already a subscriber to our “A Brush with Life” no action is required. Your Just Art Calendar 2024 is already for you to receive on the first of each month.

And, if you wish, up grade to our paid subscription to “Terrill Welch by herself” monthly publication and receive the additional option of a limited license to print one of these calendar images in 2024.

Hot Tip! Those that are subscribed before November 30, 2023 will receive a bonus Sampler Just Art Calendar on December 1, 2023. 

We are always thrilled to find new ways to bring our serious fans and art collectors a chance to enjoy “Terrill Welch paintings”. We hope you enjoy this new idea as much as we enjoy offering it to you! 

Feel free to share our new Just Art Calendar offer as you wish. We always love growing our international community of art lovers with you. 

Terrill 👩‍🎨🎨❤️

ONLINE GALLERIES include –

ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

Redbubble painting and photography prints and merchandise

Eight New Terrill Welch Landscape Paintings Just Released

/ Terrill Welch / Leave a comment

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


Never Miss the Good bits! Sign Up Now for the curated editorial Terrill Welch newsletter HERE published quarterly on the 1st Friday of the month with an optional paid monthly subscription issue “Terrill Welch by herself” also available on the 3rd Friday of each month. 


ONLINE GALLERIES include –

ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

Redbubble painting and photography prints and merchandise

New Terrill Welch by herself Publication

/ Terrill Welch / Leave a comment

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 👩‍🎨🎨❤️

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. 

ONLINE GALLERIES include –

ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

Redbubble painting and photography prints and merchandise

West Coast Sea Escape Show

/ Terrill Welch / 2 Comments

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. 

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.

ONLINE GALLERIES include –

ArtWork Archive original paintings and acrylic sketches currently available

Redbubble painting and photography prints and merchandise

Featuring Mayne Island Landscape Paintings

/ Terrill Welch / Leave a comment

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

New Gallery Pod for the Win

/ Terrill Welch / 2 Comments

Finding homes for paintings is a pleasurable task anytime. However, finding homes using the best tools available is even more enjoyable. There are a few advantages to collecting art directly from an independent artist for art collectors. I usually have most of the available inventory readily accessible and not in one of five or so different galleries that you will then need to contact directly. I can easily pull together a private viewing room for a specific size or subject request for online detailed viewing. I have the independent gallery space to bring that online private viewing room selection into a physical gallery space for viewing those paintings on very short notice. And this is what came about yesterday.


A request to view specific works in a size range for a specific subject came in via email first thing yesterday morning. I replied with the offer to create a private viewing room of available paintings that met their requirements and have them hanging in the gallery pod for final decision by 1:00 pm. The art collector thought this would work well. They came by at 3:30 pm, made their decisions easily as they had already reviewed the work online before coming. I packaged up the two paintings they chose and sent them on their way with an invoice to follow via email at 5:00 pm. An online payment was received just before 6:00 pm. We did it! All done and a very happy art collector. 

In between, I still did my social media posts and put up a new blog post.


It is on days like this when I can turn on a dime to satisfy the requests of art collectors that I am so thankful to be an independent artist with a great online gallery show space and inventory/invoicing tools with Artwork Archive and my very own gallery show space at our front gate. These two online and in-person art gallery spaces work amazingly well and seamlessly together. Here are the two paintings that are now off into a new home of their own…

SOLD – The Woodcutter’s Stash by Terrill Welch 16 x 12 inch acrylic on gessobord.

Artist notes: Starting from plein air, I work on this painting for several time over an eight month period until it finally felt complete and the harmony between the woodcutter’s stash and the landscape itself held just the right amount of familiarity and tension. The driftwood had accumulated because of heavy winter storms,and flooding from atmospheric rivers the previous November. The type and intensity of storms were cause by changes in our climate. The woodcutter was able to selvage the aftermath and put it to good use. A very thin silver lining in otherwise disastrous circumstances.

SOLD – An Early Spring Sea by Terrill Welch 8 x 10 inch acrylic on gessobord

Artist notes: The weather was unstable with about an hour from start to finish between showers. Yet, the sea was steady and true, in a chameleon sort of fashion, as the tide receded. A good afternoon for being a plein air painter.

Our sincere congratulations to the art collectors! May they enjoy these paintings for many years to come. 

Please note: The Gallery Pod will be open by arrangement only from December through to sometime in February. I am around and it only takes a minute to go turn on the lights in the gallery pod which will have a flow-show in it during this time or if you have specific requests of paintings you would like to consider, I am more than happy to hang these for you as well. 

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

Terrill Welch Gallery Spotlight on artist Jody Waldie 

/ Terrill Welch / Leave a comment

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

Redbubble painting and photography prints and merchandise

A Weekend Gallery Get Away Visit

/ Terrill Welch / 2 Comments

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

Redbubble painting and photography prints and merchandise