Sliced with a Tear – a large autumn Canadian landscape painting
There is something about autumn by the sea with the gray melancholy wrapped in fall colours. This particular day is one of those slow-baked, melancholy west coast Sundays, so moist and tender you can...
View ArticleWinter Morning By The Sea – a small seascape painting
The day starts with soft hints of colour through heavy cloud and mist. Yet, the wonder of a new beginning, a new start, is still powerful and satisfying in its own natural abstract way. WINTER MORNING...
View ArticleRoad to Everyday – Canadian landscape painting
The heavy fog on the road this day – this painting is an interpretation of common-place stillness that is clearly visible in my sensory memory. It is a time when deep quiet comes to dripping woods...
View ArticleFog Inside Passage winter west coast Canadian landscape painting
Winter fog in the southern gulf islands is often dense and close to the sea. Islands appear and disappear as the ferries take passengers through the inside passage. The mysterious landscape has a...
View ArticleEND OF TODAY small Canadian landscape sunset painting
The low clouds and mist tumbled freely with the setting sun by the sea. END OF TODAY is an oil paint rendering of another Mayne Island sunset in the southern Gulf Islands on the west coast of Canada....
View ArticleWest Coast Blues in photography and painting
Reblogged from Creativepotager's Blog: Yes, my yes! We do have sun! I am always fascinated how our west coast blues means a bright sunny day to me and yet often other will comment that it looks rather...
View ArticleContemporary Canadian Landscape paintings by Terrill Welch SOLD!
The global economy is as dreary as a rainy day in a Gulf Island west coast winter. Disposable income for luxuries like original art is supposedly shrinking. Why then are these original Terrill Welch...
View ArticleMore Canadian Landscape paintings by Terrill Welch SOLD!
You might be saying “where have you been!?” You would be right to ask of course. It is true. I am finding it hard to squeeze in a new blog post here. I don’t know what to say. Either it is fluke good...
View ArticleActive Pass Breaking Cloud Cover – a morning shadow photograph
The morning’s broken light created shadow play across the landscape and sea. So often in landscape photograph, shadows are edited out so that we can have a better view of the whole scene. It is a...
View ArticleOil landscape paintings – three new releases and three to ship
The studio continues to be a busy place this spring with the ninth Canadian landscape oil painting this year purchased by a collector yesterday. But let’s start with the three new paintings being...
View ArticleSister oil paintings of Tulips on the Springwater Deck Mayne Island
Two new bright 20 x 16 oil on canvas sister paintings of the luscious tulips on the Springwater Deck are ready for your perusal. The first is a plein air painting which had a few minor edits back in...
View ArticleThe Edge and At The Beach Another Time – Canadian landscape paintings
Two new Canadian landscape paintings are ready to release from my studio. THE EDGE is a brand new 48 x 24 inch rendering of a sandstone bluff battered by the wind and sea but also hosts a familiar...
View ArticleNO REASON Canadian west coast oil painting by Terrill Welch
No reason is reason enough to sit quiet and observe and breathe into the world around us, a way of feeling more than seeing. NO REASON is a 12 x 10 inch alla prima or wet-on-wet Canadian west Coast...
View ArticleWinter Sun II west coast Canada Landscape Painting
Crisp air is softened in the early light. Another day begins as the sea hums a mellow tune that is being rehearsed in the west coast of Canada morning sky. WINTER SUN II 18 x 24 inch oil on canvas...
View ArticleRemember Untold Mystery – Canadian Landscape Painting
The beauty of trees, rocks and the angle of the sun have their untold stories we are forever wanting to tell. These stories are some of the eyes and ears for World Environment Day. REMEMBERED UNTOLD...
View ArticleNew Growth West Coast in late May – Canadian landscape oil painting
The winter and spring rains have left both moss, salal and trees dressed in new frocks of vibrant green. It won’t last. As summer progresses the new growth will harden off and become dull and crunchy...
View ArticlePlein Air Painting From Felix Jack Road Mayne Island
A view that surprises as the viewer emerges from thick forested road. I pondered and mused until one morning I just through my easel and paints in the back of Red Rosie, drove over and parked on the...
View ArticleEnd of Storm Georgina Point Mayne Island – oil painting
The waves are rolling at the entrance to Active Pass. Even though the clouds have broken, the tail end of the storm is still whipping the sea. END OF STORM GEORGINA POINT MAYNE ISLAND 8 x 10 inch oil...
View ArticleReaching for the Sea II west coast landscape painting
Trees, sandstone shore and sea greet the midday sun as it comes towards all that is possible – never mind what has come before or what will come afterwards. This is now – beauty of a moment’s breath in...
View ArticleThe Mt. Baker Reach – west coast seascape study
There is something about coming to the Mayne Island shore and seeing Mount Baker across the Strait of Georgia that is like magic. No photograph seems to adequately capture my surprise and delight so I...
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