Featured Piece in 2025 Birds In Art Exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Into The Wind
Original - Oil on Canvas

For over a decade a male Harrier lived in our area of open fields, marsh and prairie. I often saw him hunting over fields as I drove by. While regularly running on the township roads, I would often spot him following the roadside, soaring and then diving low to the grass. He was no doubt searching for something to transfer back to his nest. Our paths often crossed. He seemed to have grown accustomed to my presence, flying quite close. Though flying swiftly along, I noticed he kept an eye on me, seeming to watch me out of the corner of his eye. For many years he was reliably back in the spring. The last two years he did not return. This spring I was excited to see a male Harrier migrating through, soaring and diving across the field.

Terrill was in the first ‘Birds in Art’ exhibit. Works in the current 50th anniversary exhibit were selected from 1,160 art works submitted. Terrill’s work has been in numerous ‘Birds in Art' exhibits and accompanied national museum tours. The 50th annual, internationally renowned, 2025  Birds in Art exhibition, will be on display at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI from Sept. 6- Jan. 4, 2026.

The Woodson Museum is one of America’s premier museums featuring contemporary art of the natural world, located right here in Wisconsin. For details on the exhibit, directions to the museum and museum hours, see www.lywam.org