After the rain the rivers and creeks in our country come alive with a new growth of plants . The country is filled with beautiful colours. We rejoice looking at our rivers and creeks full of water, so that we can go fishing, kids can go swimming and we can picnic with our families and friends.
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Name: Celia Sandy
Language: Yindjibarndi
Biography:
Celia Sandy was born in the Roebourne Hospital and went back as a baby with her mother to Mt Florence Station which was in their ancestral Yindjibarndi country. Her parents were Sandy Andrews and Lila King and she is the fifth of their eleven children. Her father worked at Mt Florence station mustering cattle and doing other station jobs. Her mother cooked and washed for the station boss and his family. Celia has many happy memories of her childhood, playing around in the hills with her many brothers and sisters and friends. "Sometimes we would run away to another station, Coolawanyah or Tambrey, to visit other children and families there. We would look for wild oranges on the way. Our parents used to come and look for us in a red truck." When she was older, around ten or eleven, Ceila left Mt Florence along with other children and stayed in the hostel in Roebourne to go to school while their parents continued to work on the station. In the holidays they would go back, or sometimes stay with their grandparents at the reserve in Roebourne, across the river. When the station work ran out, her father got a job in Roebourne at the garage and the family lived on the reserve. She says, "It was good to have our parents close by again." Celia started practising art early in 2011, joining her family at the Yinjaa-Barni Art Centre and working alongside her sisters, Allery and Aileen Sandy, her daughter Dawn and her nieces. Although initially reluctant to try, feeling she had no time and often felt unwell, she finally took up a brush and very quickly developed a style and palette of her own. Drawing on her early memories of looking at the shapes and colours of the HamPaintinersley Ranges in her home country, Celia uses a heavily laden brush to delineate these landforms and the sun-shot rock faces that characterise her Pilbara country. Celia paints all day totally absorbed in her work. She says, "g makes me feel really good - it makes me feel proud. And my health is much better. Now I come and paint every day."
Wildflower Season These are the beautiful wildflowers that grow in my country. They grow amongst the spinifex and bloom at all different times of the year.
Sea Turtle Turtles roam the sea as family every year even when the times to find land to hatch their young on the beach
Sea Turtles Drifting Turtles roam the sea as family every year even when the times to find land to hatch their young on the beach