Paynjarra Jumu Soakwater - Penny K-Lyons, 2022 Julia Lawford

Paynjarra Jumu Soakwater - Penny K-Lyons, 2022 Julia LawfordThis one Paynjarra jumu (soakwater) good country this one, desert country, long way out. Yarun (bloodwood) them trees, This is desert country. We get bush tucker in this country. Penny K Lyons Acrylic on Canvas 90 x 120cm Please Note: This artwork comes stretched, ready to hang.

Artist // Mervyn Street

My families walked out from the desert many years ago leaving they homeland behind

Lake Gregory

You dont want to know the time

all I can hear from the back of the Toyota

We never have blankets no nothing no flour no sugar

THIS WATERHOLE IS CALLED JUPIRR THAT MY GRANDMOTHER COUNTRY

From the gumtree

Where l  use to walk as a young men going hunter with my families and showed me and teach me how to hunt and to live on this land

There were so many people interested in this charcoal drawing "Black and White Brothers" by Mervyn he agreed he needed to make it accessible to everyone

Jewellery is made locally by artists and craftspeople

And the dots represent flowers that grows along the edge of the water