Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) 21-1054KA (A)

This painting is of Winsome's father's country around Lake Christopher in the Ngaanyatjarra lands of Western Australia. Winsome visited this lake with her father and uncle growing up, camping out at Karrku (a nearby outstation) to see, walk and learn about Country. Lake Christopher is an intermittent lake which only fills with water after big rain; Winsome remembers seeing the lake after big rains and hearing stories about old people hiding around the lake in the early days.

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Winsome Newberry is an established Ngaanyatjarra artist who was born in Kaltukatjara (Docker River), and has spent much of her time between Warakurna and Kaltukatjara. Winsome paints important Tjukurpa (Dreaming), including her paternal grandfather's country near the Rawlinson Ranges in Western Australia. Winsome learned painting and wood carving from her mother in Warakurna and Warburton as an adult, and enjoys painting with a number of different techniques including dotting with a purnu (wooden stick) and using a variety of brushes to create her textured and striking canvases.