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.
Country Bluebells The Country Bluebell is one of the common flowers growing on the edges of the river bank and around the edge of hillsides. It also grows in open plains country.
Springflowers This artwork shows the flowers blooming in the Spring, showing it’s beauty. There are sturt peas, mulla mulla and bluebells.
Millstream Emily is one of Yinjaa-Barni Art’s emerging artists. Emily painted this artwork after returning to Country on an art centre camp to Millstream. She collected natural pigments from Millstream crossing and ground the rock Read more…