Red Ochre Country Desert Meets the Tropics Tropical life’s abundance radiates through

Tropical life’s abundance radiates through the hot humid night

Country Lines contextualises and showcases the areal view mapping ability of Indigenous Australians highlighting their vast knowledge and awareness of their ancestral homelands

and the sugar ants harvest the wattle flower nectar

Over a gently coloured blended mosaic background sits a traditionally styled dot art acrylic painting in eye catching colour and form from Maggie

Red Ochre Country Desert Meets the Tropics Tropical life’s abundance radiates through'Red Ochre Country' depicts the importance of the different hues of ochre in creating stories, leaving messages and with use in ceremony. This soft rock pallet, so important in Aboriginal life, is portrayed in earthy colours in this contemporary dot art painting, imbued with intricate line work, which links the deep cultural and complex relationships with country, family and lore. This original painting by Maggie of GleeArt on stretched canvas, takes