Billabong
This painting is all about a billabong that near Noonkanbah these pandanus trees (wakiri) all around and all kind of fish barramundi’s live this billabong.
Dimensions: 120x120cm: Atelier acrylic paint on canvas
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My Country
This is lake country that in my country way out in the desert.With sandhill’s all around
Dimensions: 60x90cm: Atelier acrylic paint on canvas
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Tutujarti Trees (Desert Walnut)
Tutujarti trees all around the two waterhole called Nyijil Nyijil, that way out in the desert; That’s my family country, my family comes from the desert. It has a nut called ‘ngarlka ” which is good to eat.
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Jurnta
(Bush Onion) JURNTA that we digem up from the ground sometime we eat it raw or sometime we throw in the coals
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Bush Onion (Jurnta)
This country Booloowatu. My community grows bush onions. During the dry season jurnta goes black. This means they are ripe (cooked) and ready to dig up and cook on the coals. The left side shows jurnta green (raw). These ones will be ready for digging up next year.
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Milyarn yirnta (permanent waterhole)
“Milyarn waterhole got a big mob of trees all around, we call them parrkaparrka (Desert Oak), good for shade and honey this one” (edible nectar from flowers). “This one got Jilji “(sandhills) all around represented by the four ovoid shapes in corners.
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This is a big waterhole. Rain runs into the waterhole. This is good water. My people and my family lives in the desert for many years when rain season comes the waterholes use to be full by rain.And the jila waterholes nerver runs dry.And trees get green for the people sit under the green represent grass.And the blue represent the jila is full of water
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Paparta Jila
That snake at Paparta left from here, he went a long way, travelling around, and then he came back again. While the snack was travelling, he created waterholes along the way.