My painting began with a single lotus, painted in one four-hour sitting from a photograph I took at the Butchart Gardens. One painting led to the next.

Today I paint in oil, acrylic and watercolor: portraits of people and pets, cultural and devotional subjects, landscapes and florals, and portraits reimagined from old photographs, often for families who have no other picture of someone they love.

After years in a technical career, I now paint full time. The patience and eye for detail I built there come with me to the easel.