Kathleen Petyarre
My Country-Bush Seeds
ASAAKP1415
2005
200x198cm
Acrylic paints on linen
| This work depict her My Country Bush Seeds Dreaming dreaming, she has painted consistently and has developed a strong individual style using small tiny dots to create a desert landscape like her own country. The 4 linear objects are sand hills. This is an area in Utopia where Bush seeds are in abundance.
Kathleen began to learn batik in the early 1970’s and her artistic mediums developed from there. Kathleen’s paintings represent her dreaming and her country in various forms; lizard tracks, sand hills, bush seeds, watercourses and rock holes, sandstorms & hailstorms. Her latest acclaimed works are painted by finely grouping and layering tiny dots, applied with the point of a fine stick.
Kathleen has travelled overseas extensively with her art and is the winner of several major art awards. Kathleen is the niece of Emily Kngwarreye and one of seven artistic sisters, including Gloria Petyarre, Nancy Petyarre, Jean Petyarre, Myrtle Petyarre, Violet Petyarre and Ada Bird. |
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