My Mother Country - Roslyn Padoon, 2024 Mayapu Elsie Thomas

My Mother Country - Roslyn Padoon, 2024 Mayapu Elsie ThomasI'm painting my Mother's country near Yakka Yakka. Roslyn Padoon Acrylic on Canvas 60 x 60cm Please Note: All artworks on canvas are delivered unstretched and rolled to ensure safe and efficient delivery. All artworks purchases will include artist biographies and certificates of authenticity.

I told everybody

Hand-carved and painted by Alison Forrest

Acrylic on canvas

My people walked from Japirnka (another waterhole deep into the Great Sandy Desert) to this place

This is a small pirnti (claypan or depression that holds water in the wet season)

It's a big waterhole with lots of people there

You can see the flowers that come up after the rain season

when I was a little girl

Jean Rangi

This painting is about myself and my familes leaving my birth place Karnanganyjawurtu on the great sandy desert traveling towards the kimberleys' rivers country to Fitzrory Crossing

This painting is all about animals walking to the waterhole for drink this waterhole has no tree's  just grass and flowers for animals to eat

He told me that those men killed our men and a lot of women too