Nellie Coulthard Australian, Yankunytjatjara, b. 1947
Tjuntala Ngurangka - Country with Wattle (Acacia Murrayana), 2024
acrylic on linen
122 x 152 cm
796-24
I love painting the trees and flowers of the Country where I grew up - Yankunytjatjara Country near Oodnadatta. After the rain and before the summer starts, the landscape here...
I love painting the trees and flowers of the Country where I grew up - Yankunytjatjara Country near Oodnadatta.
After the rain and before the summer starts, the landscape here changes colour with lots of wattle blossoms.
My favourites trees are Tjuntala ( Acacia Murrayana) with its beautiful yellow flowers. Its seeds are small and lined up in a row inside brown seed pods.
When I was young my parents taught me how to grind Tjuntala seeds into a paste to eat. I paint the trees and flowers and it reminds me of my childhood, travelling on Country with my family. My father was a shepherd and we would travel with him as he worked.
After the rain and before the summer starts, the landscape here changes colour with lots of wattle blossoms.
My favourites trees are Tjuntala ( Acacia Murrayana) with its beautiful yellow flowers. Its seeds are small and lined up in a row inside brown seed pods.
When I was young my parents taught me how to grind Tjuntala seeds into a paste to eat. I paint the trees and flowers and it reminds me of my childhood, travelling on Country with my family. My father was a shepherd and we would travel with him as he worked.