Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm Barbara developed her own subject

Barbara developed her own subject matter

Signature Style and Subject Matter

This plant is Portulaca oleracea

Galya recalls a time when its seeds formed an important part of her clan’s diet and held deep cultural significance

then overlays it with expressive coloured dotting that partially conceals the design beneath

Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm Barbara developed her own subjectGalyas 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,