Billy Edmonds

I am a physician, artist, and novelist whose work is rooted in resilience, identity, and the ways people navigate fractured systems.

For forty years, I practiced medicine as a General Practitioner in rural British Columbia. Today, I divide m time between Canada and the remote province of Masbate in the Philippines, where I live with my Filipina wife. This cross-cultural life shapes both my art and writing, grounding them in lived authenticity.

Before turning to fiction, I had a successful art career, exhibiting widely across Western Canada. My series Talking to Strangers explored anonymity, deception, and the fragile truths we construct in the digital age. My paintings-layered, textured, and often confrontational-invite viewers to question perception and identity.

My latest novel, Suffer the Children, is a deeply human story of survival, faith, and resilience set across Canada and the Philippines. It asks what it means to endure hardship while holding onto hope.

I am also developing Call Me Sam, an upmarket literary thriller about AI, adolescence, and the fragile boundary between transformation and control. Like my art, it probes how technology reshapes truth, identity, and survival.

Across both literature and painting, my work seeks to uncover the stories that live beneath the surface-sometimes exhilarating, often unsettling, but always human.