Rae began painting and joined the Maple Bay Painters upon her arrival in Duncan in 2006. She has continued since then, painting in both oil and acrylics and producing canvases with subjects and styles, spanning landscapes, portraits, water scenes and still lifes. Rae finds painting an absorbing pastime and notes that it "does certainly 'pass time', in fact it makes time fly!"

Rae hopes that those paintings, which hang in homes on the Island and in other provinces, bring joy to their owners. Many of these are online on her website at: raerhodes.com