<b>Joanne Thomson</b> is a full-time visual artist, dividing her time between painting, illustration, teaching watercolour painting, and facilitating community art projects, including murals in Victoria and Saanich and the Beatty Biodiversity Museum Blue Whale Project. Currently, Thomson is the illustrator for Life and Death Matters, an independent publishing company that creates resources to support health care workers and individuals
providing care for the dying and bereaved.