Saturday, 9 February 2013

Jeannie Pitjara



I can't say how excited I am about this painting. Not only is it the first original piece of art I ever purchased, but it is also incredibly beautiful. I bought it on Ebay, directly from the artists community in Alice Springs and could therefore get a much better deal than I would have in one of the overpriced Sydney galleries. So when the rolled up canvas (150cm x 90cm) got delivered a few days later I was happy and could not wait to have it hanging on our wall. I got it framed (finally all the framing shops everywhere made total sense) and I managed to hang it without a nail in the wall (in Australia you are not allowed to put a nail into a rented apartment's wall, but this is another blog topic).
The painting is about “Bush Medicine Leaves” and I really like the colours and the gentle movement of strings of leaves.
Interestingly there are two museums in the world entirely dedicated to aboriginal art, one in Virginia (USA), the other in Utrecht (Netherlands).

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