Yinjaa-Barni Art

Turtles Drifting Turtles roam the sea as family every year even when the times to find land to hatch their young on the beach!

Country Waterholes

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.

Pilbara Region This is a painting of the Claypan Wattle when it is ripe, but it’s poisonous. This shrub starts off as a light green colour and then, as it matures, it gets darker. The flowers are a yellowy orange and also get darker with a bit of black as Read more…

Pilbara region This is a painting of the Claypan Wattle when it is ripe, but it’s poisonous. This shrub starts off as a light green colour and then, as it matures, it gets darker. The flowers are a yellowy orange and also get darker with a bit of black as Read more…

Bloodheart Tree This is the bloodheart tree that has the jayimarra flower. The bark can be burnt and rubbed onto skin like a sunscreen, to keep cool.

Cocky Birds and Galah (Bitharndi) We keep this bird around the camp as pets. There is an increase site for the gala which is a large rock on the Fortescue river. In the old days when they would increase the site, they’d hit this site with a stick and the Read more…

Pilbara wildflowers and seeds These are the Pilbara wildflower’s that grow on the ground. Their seeds spread in the Country ready for the next year.

Pilbara country The colours in the back ground represent the pilbara landscape with a hint of colour piercing through representing the scattered wildflowers found all across the country side, like the red sturt pea. The white circles on top represent man made structures from roadhouses,bridges,pipelines to small communities and towns Read more…

Pilbara Colours 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.