In our land when you come to our country you will see lots of colours in the rocks. This painting is about these colours – ochres, reds and oranges, which stream across the rock face as the sun gets lower in the sky.
In September, when we are looking for gum from the Blue Gum Tree, we walk through the spinifex country. We pick the gum when it is crystal colour, and we eat it, or put it into hot water to make it like a toffee. We call it sugar lolly.
In September, when we are looking for gum from the Blue Gum Tree, we walk through the spinifex country. We pick the gum when it is crystal colour, and we eat it, or put it into hot water to make it like a toffee. We call it sugar lolly.
These are the beautiful purple mulla mulla and red sturt desert pea wildflowers that come out in wildflower season. The browns are the Pilbara rocks in our Country that you can see all around the rugged landscape.
In spring I can never get over the beauty of these purple, mulla mulla flowers when they are in bloom along with the other yellow, pink and white flowers, and the yellow blue gum flower. It grows like a beautiful garden that you never have to water.
In spring I can never get over the beauty of these purple, mulla mulla flowers when they are in bloom along with the other yellow, pink and white flowers, and the yellow blue gum flower. It grows like a beautiful garden that you never have to water.
In spring I can never get over the beauty of these purple, mulla mulla flowers when they are in bloom along with the other yellow, pink and white flowers, and the yellow blue gum flower. It grows like a beautiful garden that you never have to water.
In spring I can never get over the beauty of these purple, mulla mulla flowers when they are in bloom along with the other yellow, pink and white flowers, and the yellow blue gum flower. It grows like a beautiful garden that you never have to water.
The colours in the background represent the pilbara landscape with a hint of colour piercing through representing the scattered wildflowers found all across the countryside in the evening light.