Pilbara Wildflowers
These are the Pilbara wildflower’s that grow on the ground they have a beautiful orange colour blending in the country during flower season.
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Wild Gum Leaves
These are in leaves of the eucalyptus tree used to print on canvas. I’m inspired by the shapes and patterns in the landscape.
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Burst of Spring
Springtime is a beautiful blending of colours in our country . When it’s been raining, all the flowers come up in a pattern like a puzzle.’ The artist started this painting with a sponge laden with colours. She painted over this background with shapes made up of coloured dots. She then further defined this coloured pattern by working over it again with white dots, to bring the colours into relief. As in much aboriginal art, the artist has represented her country from an aerial perspective.
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Pilbara flowers (blue bells)
Blue bells are common in the pilbara.It grows to a certain height in the bush and grows amongst the other flowers such as sturt pea and mulla mulla flowers.This flower has a prickly stem and every year grows wild in our country.
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Burrup
This is one of the areas where a day centre will soon be built with a walkway platform. I walked up the hill and captured this scene in my mind before painting it. I wanted to document it in its natural state before all the infrastructure is built.
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Pilbara Eagle
This is the eagle that flies over the Pilbara. In language it is called a jarburrungu.
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Jiirda (Increasing Site )
This is a special site for our people. A ceremonial place that has been passed down to us from elder to elder. It is a place where people ask for bush tucker in their country. For this to work, we rub the white chalk from Jiirda on our hands then scatter it back onto the Jiirda Hill and say where we want the plants to grow.
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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 evening and morning light.
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Early Morning Mist
The early morning mist over the water is the smoke from the breakfast fires of the Marrga, the creation spirits. According to Yindjibarndi law, in the beginning the sky was very low. When the creation spirits, Marrga, arose from the ground they raised the sky and the world out of the ocean. This creation story is called Ngurru Nyujunnggama, ‘When the World was Soft’. The Marrga gave names and form to the country and then to all the birds and animals. Finally they created the Ngaardangarli, the Aboriginal people.
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Pilbara Wildflowers
These are the Pilbara wildflower’s that grow on the ground they have a beautiful orange colour blending in the country during flower season.