This is a portrait of my husband, Ronald Johnson washing pots and pans.  It is about the eighth portrait that I have done of him.  Previous portraits of him have shown him as an intellectual. Here is a more domestic one.  The theme of the show that this was intended for was "home."

I had planned to paint this portrait as a submission for the Federation of Canadian Artists' annual mail-in exhibition.  The theme was home, so I took a series of photos of Ron doing things around our home.  Then he had a quintuple bypass, and painting was put on the back burner while he was in hospital and during his convalescence, when I looked after him.

After he had recovered, I began to work on this painting again. It is a tribute to him.