My mate Bill

I saw my mate Bill this week on the way into town and he gave me a couple of pictures to scan for him. Bill's originally from the Tiwi Islands, which are about 100km north of Darwin - but he lives just down the road and it's always good to bump into him. His artwork can be truly mesmerising and each one of them is deeply significant to Bill and his people.

Bill's right up there in my list of The Most Interesting People I Know - apart from his traditional paintings, he also paints fridges and plays a mean cigar-box ukelele. Bill's off to Darwin for a couple of weeks but when he returns, we're going to sit down, have a bit of a yarn and put a couple of posts together on Bill and some of the work he does. In the meantime, here's a couple of Bills paintings for your viewing pleasure.