However, my interest in painting was aroused about ten years ago when I visited Taiwan to attend a short intensive course in Chinese language and culture. When I returned to California, I painted sporadically and casually between my many public duties with different master artists from Taiwan, China, and the United States that I would meet and the paintings of these different masters fascinated me. Painting became something I yearned to do but for which I found only limited time.

So it is that one of the first things I decided to do when I chose to leave public service and devote full time to an avocation which I had learned to love and enjoy and find much personal satisfaction. I am pleased to share with my many friends this collection of paintings which I completed as Ambassador March Fong Eu (retired). -- March Fong Eu.