Don Hill is an Environmental Artist living in Australia and Thailand                                                                                                                                 

Changing Perspectives                                                                                                                                               

With his new works and book Don Hill continues to examine the contrasting landscapes of Queensland in only the manner that he understands by putting paint to board and canvas.                  
"Changing Perspectives" is a document of the artists life as he travels through time and space dithering here and there as he goes in search of new subjects and subsequent adventure.
His subject matter is not always obvious until it is viewed at a distance at which point it can and may take the shape and form of the landscape that he encounters.
Don Hill’s Landscape and Seascape subjects are varied, sometimes with a feeling of impending bliss or doom or both that will take place as he faces the elements in his row boat.
Adventure had always been part of this artists life even from his early years in the UK when he purchased a bicycle and took off from London in Ugg boots to find Lands End. Four hundred plus miles later he arrived at Penzance with little or no money, just enough to buy a Cornish Pasty and a train ticket back to the comfort of Bayswater Road.
The same happened when he went to Europe Hitch Hiking he had to phone a friend to get back across the Channel.
"The Ugg boots from the Penzance trip were disintegrating and taking on a life of their own." Eventually they both parted ways, one into a road side bin and the other into a wonderful relaxing shower. Nobody is quite sure which one did what but presume the Ugg boots met their end from Lands End.
It had been many weeks on the road and an arduous journey through Somerset over the Mendips and the horrors of Exmoor.
Years later he would undertake similar journeys through the South Island of New Zealand and Nepal undertaking solo bike rides without guides and limited resources with only a picture in his head of where he was going and a camera to make a record. One year he made it to Muktinath in Mustang and tried to stay confident after convincing the border guards to let him keep going and continue on to Lo Manthang but the weather Gods were against his progress. He made it to the crossover Temple and played with the Prayer Wheels It was so cold he had to play with other things to make sure they were not frozen. The landscape was fiercly beautiful and clear it snowed every night with temperatures going down to minus 12 ." "The locals tried to keep him warm with Ruksi but this did not work although he made some great company.'
N Inphurut BA