Over Black Mountain

Landscape, drawing and painting this unusual black mountain, it went for miles while travelling … called Black Mountain near Cooktown Qld. It has a back story that my Aboriginal friend sent me:

Sheila Whittam … it's a Story Place of the kuku Yalangjii people south of Cooktown ❤️👍 lovely place there's another mountain very similar in the Cape Melville National Park n another down near the Atherton Table lands.

From my Aboriginal friend Helen Gordon, Cooktown.

This work is unframed and is on heavy gesso art paper.

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Sheila Whittam is an Adelaide Hills artist, originally from Britain. She has had a long art career having had more than 20 solo exhibition in SA and Vict. She has a BA in visual arts from ACSA. As a tutor she designed a creative art course-which contributed to community wellbeing. She has been included in three finalist major art shows in recent times including the Kennedy art prize 2022, she also won a SALA award. Is confidently experimental in her approach to art making- using mixed media - oils cold wax , monotypes and encaustics. Her most recent works have translucent multiple layering and moving into contemporary ideas and abstraction.