Termite mounds, Kimberley (47)

And now for something completely different –  and you can’t get much more different to the UK than the Kimberley region in north Western Australia.

The Kimberley covers nearly 423,000 square kilometres (three times the size of the UK!) and is one of the world's last true wilderness areas. Bordered by the Indian Ocean in the west, the Timor Sea in the north, the Great Sandy Desert in the south, and the Northern Territory in the east, the Kimberley region is full of spectacular and diverse scenery.

The rich colours in this area are very distinctive. I found this scene in a tourist brochure and felt drawn to paint it. The lone tree amongst the termite mounds seems to capture the isolation and heat of the location. I started this painting before I went to the UK for a year and completed it when I got back a few months ago.