“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

The index patient and his surgeon John and Jobe, circa 1975 Americans love baseball. So much so that they even name surgical procedures after famous players. In 1974, Dodgers pitcher Tommy John ruptured the ulnar collateral ligament of his throwing arm. This was a feared injury, the end of a career. Dodgers Orthopaedic surgeon Frank… Read more

“Botany is the eldest daughter of medicine…” Johann Herman Bass Sturt’s Desert Pea is the State floral emblem of South Australia. Ironically I painted this in New South Wales, at the Australian Inland Botanical Garden, which has the largest known planting of the species. For the technically minded, Swainsona formosa is a prostrate annual or… Read more