Short Neck Yurlies - Dorothy Forrest, 2021 Isabelle Palmer

Short Neck Yurlies - Dorothy Forrest, 2021 Isabelle PalmerThis painting is about short neck turtles. In hot weather when they starting mating they lay eggs on the banks of rivers, waterholes and springs. Dorothy Forrest Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 60cm Please Note: All artworks on canvas are delivered unstretched and rolled to ensure safe and efficient delivery. All artworks purchases will include artist biographies and certificates of authenticity.

This painting is all about grass and waterhole Jilji sandhill all around

THESE ARE THE ANIMALS THAT WE EAT GOOD TUCKER THAT LIVES IN WATER AND ON LAND

We passed through this place when I was a young girl

Timber boomerang

Artefacts are made locally by artists and craftspeople

THIS PAINTING IS ALL ABOUT FLOWERS THAT GROWS OUT IN THE BUSH MY MOTHER AND FATHER COUNTRY

Big Ngarlka (see)

We never have blankets no nothing no flour no sugar

Have a go on that scrub bull

It is a small fruit about 10mm in size

living water in my fathers country on the Canning Stock Route

You see the mulla mulla which is the purple colour and the yellow represents the dry grass