Waves: Australia series #6

Waves: Australia series #6

The Kimberley
Vast…Ancient…Unexplored…Legendary…
This place is unique in the World, so many mysteries, so many nooks and crannies are yet to be scarred by the footprint of man…white man that is.

Aboriginal people lived here for tens of thousands of years, coexisting with the rocks and sand and plants and animals, only taking what was needed to survive…
And moving on

I do not know what forces created the waves of the Kimberley…wind, water, volcanic eruption? All I know is that the land has been left beautifully sculpted, and then dotted here and there with stands of tough desert trees that scream out at the World “I am a survivor!”

And survive against all odds they do, in pockets, their backs to the wall, nurturing each other while denying each other those things so precious and vital for existence, water, air, light…a few kilometres to the left and the hard quartz denies plant roots purchase, a few kilometres to the right and water is non-existent, except in the dim memory of the stones that once lay at the bottom of the oceans that covered this Country, this Kimberley.

60×60 cm
Acrylic on stretched canvas
Original for sale…and get a set of steak knives!

Detail:

Waves: Australia series #6 belongs to the following groups:

Paintings From Beginners, Shameless Self-Promotion and WA Red Bubbles Available for sale as

Greeting Cards and Matted Prints