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This week I got back from a month roaming Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. It was absolutely fantastic being able to see Machu Picchu with my own eyes, wandering the halls of Museo de Larco with its 45,000 Peruvian artifacts, cruising the Tigre River delta, walking through Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Botanica, and actually swimming at the Copacabana beach (complete with coconut water straight from a coconut!). So much to talk about - but more importantly so much to draw! I filled a whole sketchbook in a few short weeks. I've got loads of reference photos for more artwork which I'll be uploading soon. Stay tuned!

Oh wow! Recently I heard about something happening in Western Australia that just made my jaw drop. There's planning under way for a gas hub on the Kimberley coast in Western Australia at a place called James Price Point. The idea is to put a port on the coast so that oil rigs can be set up on the coast, pump oil through pipes to this gas hub where it can be packed into barrels ready for ships to come and collect it. It's always sad when pristine wilderness is destroyed for development, but this proposed gas hub threatens so many important things. The Kimberley coast is sacred Aboriginal land. The place is special to them like a cathedral i

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