I captured this musician immersed in the music he was creating as he sat under trees in Montmartre, Paris, during my 2016 trip. 

I spotted him from afar and managed to get many photographs in various music-playing poses as I walked past him up a hill. 

This piece is watercolour paint on watercolour A3 size paper. 

While he did look up and possibly at me as I walked past with a group of tourists, he mostly paid no heed to the people around him. Simply enjoying the afternoon and the joy of playing music. 

I spotted three other musicians playing/busking in the streets of Paris during my trip, but this was the only one who looked like his mind was a million miles away in his own little world.

This is a graphite portrait of Central Queensland Vietnam war veteran Harry Mimi. Harry was well-known in Rockhampton due to his colourful attire he regularly wore while out and about. The Gayndah-born and raised indigenous man was one of the first Australian men on the ground in the war. 

The veteran community had invited me to various events at the Cockscomb veterans retreat in Cawarral and I donated this piece to their museum when his name was added to the Cenotaph in 2016.