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  A Sound Like Rain   ISBN 979-8-89660-983-4  Released When I came to start these works and writings I had no idea of where to start except the fact I could look at the image of Queen Elizabeth on my wall and feel inspired. She always encouraged me. Art and writing is not an easy pilgrimage although when ideas, words and paint start to flow in the congenial direction it is difficult to halt the process and take a rest. So you may find yourself looking up to the clock at one or two in the morning and wonder how you arrived at that point. You and me are different as we have lived different lives with different outcomes that never collide. I am not of the mortal and moral courage to lay back because of the places I have been in my life, some good, some bad, some threatening, some desperate, some sad although there were happy times in between. I have survived all these years dressed in a coat of a loner, vagabond and tramp. I used to think Art was easy in the fact I coul...
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  Heading North   It was nearly June in Brisbane and my thoughts started to head North to the Wet Tropics again.  The cold had now set in and my locale had already experienced minus two in recent weeks with continuing morning temperatures swinging between two and four.  This was persuasive in my current state and mood to pack up the car and head off with my paint box, some paper and fishing rods.  I now craved the sweet smell of the forest and air on Dunk as well as at El Arish and the Turquoise Sea. With time running away it had been almost two years since I visited my favourite Shambhala (Shangri-La) on planet Earth.  In a past time I had been lucky enough to visit the Sky Cave realm of Mustang in Western Nepal where this term has been used and I could see the possibility that this was the place although it was the original gateway from India to Tibet and China it now faced risks and challenges from  political upheaval and progress with a proportion ...
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 Don Hill is an Australian Environmental artist and activist who grew up in Ipswich and now resides in South East Queensland and Thailand.  Early influence in his art works came from Arthur Evan Read, Mervyn Moriarty and Frank De Silva with whom he undertook casual studies and field trips.   In this book Don examines the use of raw and freely available materials for making compositions and artworks and how the art works came about.  This is especially relevant in his use out of recycled wood, canvas and in particular of bamboo which he grows  on his digs in Australia and Thailand. Don takes time to explain how this process happens when he feels inclined to start a new piece and the stories  that the works tell.  He uses materials and a palette derived from his first hand environmental experiences and previous  living conditions. The majority of pieces were made in the early 2000's and depict the memories of a wandering homeless person.  ...
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