A Janet Menzies article about in the The Field. The magazine used one of the paintings in my 2015 show with the Rountree Tryon as an illustration. Read this article HERE:

I was commissioned to write this article for Optima, Anglo American's in-house publication. This was one of the positive consequences of the publication of my first book Botswana A Brush with the Wild in 1987. When you get your foot in the door, opportunities come knocking. I decided to write about my interest in the geological history of Northern Botswana combined with the wildlife, wilderness and history of that same region. Some of the ancient, thousand-year old historic baobabs that I described in that article have now died, disintegrated and are gone! - a legacy of how climate change is affecting these marginal areas.

In 1987, as was the norm for me, I returned to Durban for the wet season. One of the pleasures of returning to my tiny Durban North Beach flat was the pile of mail that would be waiting for me in my Post Box. There was a letter from the Postal Services of Botswana commissioning four postage stamps. I perceived this as yet another example of what happens when you have a foot in the door! I still like the results because unlike most stamp illustrations, my stamps were of actual animals lit by a sun that was behind or above the subjects. Most stamp illustrations are painted as if they are lit by an overcast sky and with no distinct shadows.

There was a time when I thought that I was an original! But that myth was shattered when I read Voice of the Turtle published in 1964. This was written by explorer, author and adventurer, William Bill Travis and was a description about his and my father's ill-starred attempts to make a business, canning sea food in Somalia for the European luxury market. Their company was called Martin & Paul Kismayu Ltd. The Paul in that company name is me! They saw lions on the beach, abundant wildlife, narrowly avoided inclusion in a rebel plot, and were eventually deported from the country just as their business started to take off.
Ian Fleming wrote a glowing endorsement of the book which remains one of the very few travel books written about Somalia before it became what we now perceive it to be.
To read this book you will have to find a copy on Amazon or EBay. Travis also wrote several other books including Last Bus to Simi and Beyond the Reefs which is still in print and available for sale from Publishers in the Seychelles.