If you've never spent any amount of days and nights above the 26th parallel you don't need to feel you've missed out on the wonder of raw nature. Hill has brought the power, beauty and brilliance of this landscape back with him in these oil and mixed media paintings.

With these exhibits, the artist extrapolates the rich colour and clarity of light, the thundery skies and far horizons he witnessed and in doing so captures the total beauty of the land. We get a bird's eye view of the flat-topped peaks of North Watch at Victoria River and wing it overland with a mob of White Cockatoos. Hill brings us back down to earth with a lizard's eye view of boabs in Leonard Range I and lets us cool off in the blue waters of the Alligator River. We know he's been to the places he depicts; we can see his shadow on the ground in more then one image.

Three rooms of the gallery glow with over forty paintings of warm greens, fiery oranges, powder pinks, ghostly shaped trees and long curved beaches. Some works include a structured built up texture or specific shapes formed from debris left by the human presence on the land. The collage elements made from rusted metal add a poetic level of interest to these well composed visual narratives. Metal is a product that originally came from the land and will, when left to the elements, rust and deteriorate to become one with it again. 

With his work, the artist confirms the strength to be found in both the landscape and his own skill. Hill's compositions sit broadly across a horizontal canvas or swirl outward from a central vertical vortex, either way they reflect the dichotomy of the overall stability and continual movement of the ancient and evolving Earth beneath our feet.

If you can't get to the top of the state, go walkabout through this exhibition of awesome works. You will go away refreshed.