'This painting is of one of my favorite scenic locations in Africa - the acacia forests to the West of Lake Amboseli. This area of Kenya has been the focus of intense tourism since the 1950s. Amboseli is not wilderness, not anymore. The land area of Amboseli is too small with tourists, people, pastoralists and lots of wildlife fighting for access to diminishing resources of grazing and water. Like Ngorongoro in Tanzania Kilimanjaro has become a crowded theme park. But the scenery is so overwhelming that no one really cares. Me included. Kilimanjaro has a magnetic and gravitational presence that dominates everything. It also has a magical presence that I find very compelling, which is also a challenge to reproduce in a painting. However for an artist such as myself, Kilimanjaro is a creative gift that keeps on giving.'