In the wet season, after a big rain the country is flooded. Waterholes are full and all the rivers are running. This is our favourite time of the year. We all go bush to the freshwater.
Name: Sheryl Hicks
Biography:
Sheryl Hicks was born in Wickam in 1974. Her father is a Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi man from Roebourne. Sheryl spent her early years in Perth with her non-Aboriginal mother, returning to Roebourne when she was 18 years old. She has a family of three daughters, as well as two sons. He daughters Treinaya and Cheyenne have followed in their mother’s footsteps and are also artists at Yinjaa-Barni Art.
Sheryl works full time in education and paints often in her spare time. She loves coming into the art centre and spending time with her family painting, yarning and listening to stories of Country. Sheryl finds being on Country and expressing herself through art very healing and her new favourite way of connecting to family, Country and her culture.
Sheryl started painting in 2012. She uses colour and patterns as a way of expressing Country in a contemporary form. Many of her paintings are about wildflowers, rovers or waterholes and showing the many beautiful colours of Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Country. Sheryl continually experiments with expressing different methods of representing Country and her artwork is always evolving.
Coral Reef When the tide goes out it leaves all the weeds among the rockholes mixed with all the colourful coral from the ocean.
Sea Turtle Turtles drifting to sea but when it comes to winter that’s when it’s hatching season, lots of them… lay their eggs as they beach wherever the best spot without danger abouts…
Heritage Place at Solomon Hub This is a Heritage site out at Solomon’s which is located in my country