Terrill Welch Gallery

Terrill Welch was born in 1958 in Vanderhoof, in north-central British Columbia, and was invited into an adult painting class when she was fourteen. She went on to take many college-level drawing and painting courses and taught oil painting from life in natural light for several years before turning her focus fully to her own studio practice.

Her subject is the West Coast, especially the places where land meets water around the Salish Sea and here on Mayne Island. She paints mostly in oils, often working directly from life, along with acrylic sketches. Her paintings now hang in collections in Canada, the United States, Europe, England and Australia, and she has been connecting collectors with landscape paintings for more than 30 years.

In August 2017 she opened the Terrill Welch Gallery at her home on Luff Road, a container gallery pod where visitors can browse at their own pace and buy directly from the artist.