Recently i have started on a 12 month traveling tour though various countries. the first stop was to visit my family in Darwin. i had never been to Darwin before and being a landscape painter i was taken back by how beautiful the place was.  The ruggedness of the landscape, the condensed native flora  all made for amazing inspiration. I had a chance to visit Litchenfield National Park and was taken back by just how diverse the landscape really was. The natural swimming holes and rock pools were so pure it was though you could drink from the water. the red earth had a immense effect on me, it has always been something i have drawn from in my artwork but i had not seen soil so deep in red colour so rich and vibrant. At one point i picked up a hand full and rubbed it into my skin just to be able to see the pigment against my skin colour.

We had the opportunity to go out on Adelaide River to do some Crocodile spotting. I really enjoyed witnessing the ruggedness of this landscape, as also to witness the majestic Crocodile in it’s element. we stopped for a drink on Goat Island and had the opportunity to meet some of the locals.