Illara Ck escarpment

This is pretty much my favourite spot on Tempe Downs station in the middle of the Northern Territory.. it's now freehold Aboriginal country and is beautiful.. with few fences, you can wander all day , breathing in a land that doesn't appear to have changed much since Europeans arrived a couple of centuries ago. I'm amazed how the ghost gums flourish, even as they appear to grow out of bare rock, overlooking spinifex country below..

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My first 20 years were spent in southern NSW on a farm on wonderful grey box country, then..
University at ANU surrounded by scribbly gums.
More recently south coast of NSW amongst beautiful spotted gum forests.
In between times I studied art at RCAE Wagga and TAFE Goulburn in the spare time I had running a business spanning 40 years.
Artist's trips to Alice Springs and beyond over the past decade have rekindled my interest in the textures and colours of Central Australia- ghost gum country...
There's a pattern here...
For the past 10 years I have been exhibiting and selling successfully in Sydney.