These are the Pilbara wildflowers that grow on the ground. They have a beautiful colours blending into the Country during flower season.
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.
Native Wildlife Animals from Yindjibarndi Country. *Damaged at top. Price reflects peeling paint. This artwork is currently on stretched canvas. We will have to obtain a freight quote if you would like to purchase this Read more…
Pilbara Hills In our country we have many hills of all different shapes and sizes. When driving through country at different times the colours change and some of the hills look like velvet in the Read more…
Ochre in Water Mixing Ochre with water is when Ochre is at its best. It’s like mud and you can paint beautiful lines and it is easy to work with.