the painting is Aboriginal: black and red, their black skin and the red soil.
It was being painted by an Aboriginal woman, Anette Newbury, in Wiluna, W.A. It was not yet finished and therefore she did not tell me the story. I wanted to buy it, because the painting looked so beautiful and because Annette was the first woman to come to the dotpainting-centre, which I had established there. Annette was very special to me. She lost two children, at the age of about 17, through suicide. She told me that she now paints for het grandchildren. They keep her going.
By the way, if you cannot see it properly: the little black things are all bees.
The rains were coming and I had to leave Wiluna quickly; otherwise I might be stuch there for a week or so.
I heard that somebody else bought the painting, far beyond my purse!
