Yinjaa-Barni Art

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Letting Go

This painting represents the warmth and love I have for a lady I was proud to call my mother. After losing her, I as an artist felt myself being motivated to do a series of paintings to deal with my grief and the void she has left in my heart and life itself. The earlier pieces in the series used dark colours to represent the devastation and overwhelming grief of losing my mum (Aunty). I realised this painting is me slowly moving through the grief and beginning to find light again. This is my journey as an artist, using my painting to navigate the process that we all go through in life called grief. After working on this piece I realised that the colours I have used in the background represent the warmth and love my mum had for her family and those around her. The copper represents my Mum’s love and respect for her Country and many trips she enjoyed travelling with loved ones out bush.

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Sturt Desert Pea Flower

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Sea side fishing

Ever since I was a young girl I loved to go with my family fishing we love going to East harding and Jones creek this fishing spot is where we catch alot of samons,barramundi,brims and also mud crabs,Now that im older we take our younger kids out there and learn them the sea side life.

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Airport Creek Karratha

This is the creek near Karratha Airport I like to visit.

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Wildflowers

These are the beautiful wildflowers you see in the Pilbara landscape during September.

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Vase of Flowers

Vase of flowers.

This is my painting of a vase of flowers ,I love painting flowers we have many beautiful flowers in our country.

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Pilbara Land scape

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 take its toll as the country comes alive with the wild flowers watered by the rain and heavy due 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 trcking goanna’s also gathering bush fruits and medicine.

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Rugged Country

During dry summer months our country looks so dry, but the beauty of the red earth, the spinifex and dry grass make it beautiful.

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Seeds and Waterways (Dawn)

I am inspired by the colours in the rocks, the seeds on the ground, and the way water moves through the land. When I paint, I think about the flow of a waterway. Water is always moving, and I follow that movement in my lines and shapes. The forms in my work come from that flow, and my colours come from what I see in Country. I use strong, vivid colours because that is how I see Country in my mind and how i feel when i paint. There is a lot of new life when you find water on Country. It is where you find the beautiful colours and the flowers.  When i paint I feel connected to culture, the old people and memories. 

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Colours of the Wildflowers

The colours of the rock and the purple mulla mulla flow through the painting. The wild onion seeds are the red dots.