Mary Peterson
Acrylic on Canvas
60cm x 90cm
"Bush flowers and bush tobacco up the top, on the sandhills."
This painting depicts hundreds of bush flowers scattered against a back-group of fine dot work arranged in concentric circles. If you know what you are looking for, you can find the bush medicine hiding among the rest. The yellow flowers with big leaves are useful for showering, the coral flowers, which are sweet and juicy provide hydration when there is no water, the lime green flowers are good to wash babies or a sore on the skin.