Description
Artist: Bernadine Johnson Kemarre
Year: Unknown
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions including frame: 650 mm x 450 mm
Origin: Australia
Description: Aboriginal artist Bernadine Johnson Kemarre paints the desert yam story from her family’s country. Not only is the plant a staple food for desert Aboriginals but it is widely respected for it’s various medicinal healing properties. The artist’s series of Desert Yam paintings are a means of paying homage to the spirit of the plant in hope that it will regenerate for future harvests.
Framed in black tray-frame
Original
Signed by artist