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developing a distinctive linear style

My Mother’s Country is the title of this painting

Barbara employs the creamy thick textures that have such a tactile quality

Joylene previously painted at Tjurma Homelands Arts and Crafts Centre

Bush Tomato Janie-kulyuru-lewis-tag NeverthelessGalyas work is distinctive and highly individual. Her early paintings, dating from around 2004, drew on Portulaca oleraceaknown as munyerooa grass once abundant in the Utopia region and an important food source for generations. Its tiny black seed became central to her imagery, with Galya adopting its half circle form as a dominant motif in her paintings. Over fifty years of cattle grazing greatly reduced the abundance of this grass. In her paintings,