Virginia McGowan

Pastel Painters” thanks to Moderators , check out their absolutely incredible fabulous art!
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and Valerie Simms

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The Cry of the Curlew by Peter Watt
The Cry of the Curlew from a fictional novel but based on fact, is very involved ..In the early days of white people occupying and taking over the indigenous people’s land in outback Australia the native aboriginals were considered vermin and there was a determined effort to make them extinct, one way to do this was to poison their waterholes.;hence the two figures in the waterhole.I did this in similar way rock art is drawn, the legend is whenever there is a death the bush curlew cries I haven’t heard one, but they only cry when distressed and apparently the sound is really long mournful and once heard not forgotten.