Doris works in several disciplines including painting, fabric design, woodcarving and more recently ceramics. Doris’ mother was from Docker River and father from Papunya. Doris often paints in the naive style, she paints sceneries from her community Titjikala, as it is today with community life and wild animals in the area. Thomas was born in 1949 at Deep Well, approximately 80 kilometres south of Alice Springs. Her mother was a Luritja speaker from the Docker River region and her father was from Papunya. With a charmingly naïve brush, Thomas creates an Edenic garden of desert blooms, Spinifex and animals, harmoniously enjoying a plentiful landscape. And yet, these are not prelapsarian elegies to a time before colonialism. A closer view reveals that they are odes to adaption and reconciliation; in Thomas’ depictions of her ancestral country introduced animals such as donkeys, camels and goats live harmoniously alongside native species of birds, emus and kangaroos. In Thomas’ worldview, the desert is a land of plenty – big enough for all. “There is water all over the countryside,’ she declares, ‘all the wildflowers and the Spinifex bushes are blooming.” There are still clouds on the horizon, but far from being ominous, these clouds are the promise of more rain and continued abundance. Under the bounty of this sacred country, Thomas presents a vision of sharing, equality and reconciliation. Exhibitions: 1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs NT Publications: 2012 Jukurrpa diary.