Millstream Lily pond is at the Millstream Homestead.The early settlers brought the water lilies with them and created a beautiful oasis with a large lily pond. This place is a significant site for the Yinjibarndi people and one they like to visit frequently.
My Grandfather as a young man used to work on a station in a stockyard breaking in horses and bringing in cattle and sheep to the yard.After finishing this painting although being simple from my other design’s I was very happy to have thought of it because now I can say that I have done a painting with my loving Grandfather in mind.
This painting represents the colours of the leaves during the autumn season. The leaves tend to lose their green color and turn into the beautiful yellows and oranges.
Cooya Pooya is a old crossing pool that use to have a crossing road to the station that is near a big hill called Bungarliyarra. ( BB hill)
During dry summer months our country looks so dry, but the beauty of the red earth, the spinifex and dry grass make it beautiful.
After a big rain the are all running we all go out bush to spend the day and enjoy the running rivers.
The Pilbara is a land of many beautiful colours. Its beauty blends into the mother earth and against the red, purple hills in the distance. In time and season, the yellow Wattles, Mulla and Sturt Pea bloom and the country comes alive with the wildflowers watered by the rain and heavy dew during the night. The land and our country also tells a wonderful story about our ancestor’s. They walk and lived on the land, always gathering food such as fish from the river, hunting kangaroos and tracking goanna’s and also gathering bush fruits and medicine.
These are the Pilbara wildflower’s that grow on the ground they have a beautiful orange colour blending in the country during flower season.
This is my own style of flowers. I love to paint bright and colourful patterns and shapes
Pilbara is the country where we the Yindjibarndi people live and share many of our cultural stories and history that have been passed onto us by our ancestors, of how they used to walk through the flat country we call the (Table Lands) visiting family members at nearby stations. Our country has so much to offer. Bush foods and medicine as well as animals such as kangaroo, emu, goanna, and turkey. When the rains come, our rivers are full, and we all love to go out and spend the day fishing. We are also close to the ocean, so we often go fishing there as well. During the holidays many of our families go bush to enjoy what the country has to offer. The beauty of our country we see through our eyes. Wildflowers bloom as nature takes its course. Our country is still full of riches. It always gives me joy to be a part of it. We are connected to our land; it is a part of who we are.