Grass Seed Dreaming Galya-pwerle-tag Her early paintings

Her early paintings

Walala developed his own unique and boldIly graphic style of painting

This is a Creation Story about the constellations of Pleiades and Orion

Pencil Yams and grass seeds

next to the large Soakage

Grass Seed Dreaming Galya-pwerle-tag Her early paintingsIn many of Barbara Weirs paintings, long, tapering lines overlap gracefully to represent a grass once abundant at Utopia before cattle grazing was introduced in the early 20th century. Its botanical name is Portulaca oleracea. For thousands of years, this grass has been important to Aboriginal people because its small black seeds can be ground into flour. Rather than painting the seeds, Weir depicts the grass itself. Her colours show its natural