ARTWORK STORY
I grew up in a forest that had tall trees and beautiful wildflowers were everywhere. My Grandmother remembers when there were many beautiful waratahs in our forest. She remembers how the poachers came often and took them all to sell in Sydney. We didn't have any waratahs in our forest. I understood the stories because when I was growing up there were beautiful wildflowers everywhere and that is why I painted the series "Where The Wildflowers Once Grew" to remember and to explain what happened to the wildflowers and to the waratahs.
The wildflowers disappeared suddenly when huge machines came in and thinned all the trees leaving only the very large ones, some large trees were later cut down for timber. The machines took a foot of the rich rainforest soil which was so full of minerals. The waratah forest paintings are my imagining what our forest used to look like. So I created a fantasy of giant waratahs where Aboriginal people live like Kings with Aboriginal Fairies. This painting is of my fantasy where a female Aboriginal angel brings the waratahs back to life.
ARTWORK STORY
I grew up in a forest that had tall trees and beautiful wildflowers were everywhere. My Grandmother remembers when there were many beautiful waratahs in our forest. She remembers how the poachers came often and took them all to sell in Sydney. We didn't have any waratahs in our forest. I understood the stories because when I was growing up there were beautiful wildflowers everywhere and that is why I painted the series "Where The Wildflowers Once Grew" to remember and to explain what happened to the wildflowers and to the waratahs.
The wildflowers disappeared suddenly when huge machines came in and thinned all the trees leaving only the very large ones, some large trees were later cut down for timber. The machines took a foot of the rich rainforest soil which was so full of minerals. The waratah forest paintings are my imagining what our forest used to look like. So I created a fantasy of giant waratahs where Aboriginal people live like Kings with Aboriginal Fairies. This painting is of my fantasy where a female Aboriginal angel brings the waratahs back to life.
