Ruggered Pilbara landscape
This painting represents my country in the Pilbara just after the dry season when the country is starting to come back to life before the rain season starts.
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 Mulla and Sturt Pea take its toll as the country comes alive with the wild flowers watered by the rain and heavy dew during the night. 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 kangaroo’s, emu and tracking goanna’s also gathering bush fruits and medicine.
This area my generation named it Round pool. We the locals practically lived and played in this river before they built the dam. This is what it looks like nowadays, only time this river got water when we have rain and that’s very rare. The salt is also climbing up the river, it has already done damage to another favorite swimming place down the river, flat rock.