My Country, 61x76cm Susie Napangarti Pope

My Country, 61x76cm Susie Napangarti PopeAda Beasley Acrylic on Canvas 61 x 76 cm "I'm gonna tell story about my country. After the bushfires, when the rain comes and brings back all the bush flowers and bush medicine back again and make it green, this [is] why I do this painting, reminds me when we go hunting after the bush fire and see just black, then it rains and brings flowers back and the trees and the blue skies, and the snappy gum trees up the hill."

bush flowers- different colours"

"There is a river and waterfall on my grandfather's country that never goes dry

41 x 61 cm

I follow my grandmother

bottom) 3 trees

"How our people lived moving from waterhole to waterhole

We grew up on bush food

Ada Beasley holds an extraordinary knowledge about the medicinal properties of each of the plant species that are found around the hills and near the creek in her country

When it's raining

110cm x 80cm

the sons and their weapons into stars

We go out bush