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Biography
Terrill Welch’s paintings are internationally collected. Her oil paintings and acrylic painting sketches have been shown in public and commercial spaces since the 1990’s.

Terrill Welch has lived on Mayne Island in British Columbia, Canada since 2007 and she began painting full-time in 2010.
Born in 1958 in the village of Vanderhoof in north-central British Columbia, Terrill Welch was invited into an adult painting class when she was fourteen years old. Terrill Welch has taken many college-level courses in drawing and painting and continues to pursue educational opportunities. For several years, she taught the art of oil painting from life in natural light, using water mixable or walnut oil paints. Today, she is focused on her studio painting practice.


Artist Statement
I am a landscape painter connecting art and nature one brushstroke at a time. Stripping away the human illusion of our separation from nature is at the core of my work. I have a driving need to succeed in creating bridges through my art between humanity and nature. These oil on canvas and acrylic on gessobord paintings reflect my surrounding landscapes and my experiences. The brushstrokes render the light, shadow, movement, smells, sounds, emotions and events I am experiencing in our natural world. My process is to first take in the spirit of a place through observation, plein air and photographic studies.

This is followed by developing paintings that incorporate my imagination along with these observations on larger oil on canvases in the studio. I most often paint wet into wet until the work is completed in layers over several immersive days in a row. These paintings are an invitation to join me in exploring our relationship between the innate elements of our environment and ourselves. My intention is for viewers to find themselves within these landscapes as I have - filled with curiosity, wonder, discovery and a desire to survive. This is my mission - my in-progress life's work.