Adam H. Petty

Jul 31, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Meghan Kort |Angela Reitsma Bick |Adam H. Petty |Christian Courier

Skip to content For more than four years, I’ve worked at a desk over here on the west coast, connected only by pixels and faith to the folks I call my coworkers. Which might be fine if your fellow employees are loud chewers or toe tappers, but as far as I knew, the rest of the CC team were hilarious, creative bright lights with zero annoying habits.

Jul 19, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Julia K. Stronks |Jennifer Boone |Kristen Parker |Adam H. Petty

“I paint people at work,” says Karen Bailey. That’s how she came to be rolling sandwiches in a church kitchen in Ottawa one day, alongside the 70- and 80-year-old women whose portraits she was painting. That’s also how, the next day, she was flying to Afghanistan, entering the Kandahar Air Field in a sandstorm to document Canadian military medical personnel at work. For over four decades, Karen Bailey has painted Canadians who serve.