HELENA BUTT
Connecting to Country
Region: Kimberley
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 150cm (h) x 76cm (w)
Price: $2,500
Artwork Description:
The colours bloom too when you see them first hand on Country. And when we go to Country, I see everything and try to remember it all the colours, I take it in.
Now, when I paint, I’m thinking about my old people and how they walked down from the Walmajarri area towards the Western Desert.
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ARTIST BIO
“My paintings are about the desert and going back and vising. Seeing country in my mind, always changing, doing different seasons. It’s the one place I’m painting. There is a strong connection there. That’s my Fathers Country.
I grew up in Bidyadanga, school there and Darwin when the kids were going from Bidyadanga to Darwin, boarding. I have three kids, I had four but now three. I didn’t know that art was in my bloodline. I know Dad had it but I didn’t know
that I could find my self in art, changing lifestyle, art is going to stick with me.
When I want to paint it comes into my mind and I put it on the canvas in a different way.” – Helena Butt
