Lamu Market

James Macdougall was born in 1936 in Toronto, Ontario and has had parallel careers in medicine, as a teacher and as a specialist in internal medicine, with a particular interest in tropical medicine, and in visual arts as an accomplished portraitist and figurative artist. He had an interest from childhood but chose to follow in the footsteps of a family of physicians. After obtaining a medical degree at the University of Toronto Medical School in 1960, he went on to a post-graduate residency at the Montreal General Hospital, where he served as chief medical resident in 1965. He participated in a CIDA-McGill project in conjunction with the University of Nairobi in Kenya where became an assistant professor, teaching at the new developing medical school. Macdougall and his family returned to Canada in 1982. Finally retiring from medicine, he worked as an artist full-time, studying and painting during the summers at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. He moved to Stratford, Ontario in 2004, where he currently lives and works.