Martha Bull was a successful businesswoman before a divorce and a recession-driven bankruptcy made her reconsider her priorities in the mid-1980s. Deciding it was time for a bold new direction, she enrolled in a three-year full-time program at the Ontario College of Art, and discovered a love for watercolour painting.
“It was liberating,” she remembers. “It felt like, for the first time in a long time, I was taking time to do something I really wanted to do.”