Wildflowers and Fox Holes, 2008 by Jeannie Nakamarra Daniels 91x91cm Cat 13729JD

The background of this beautiful, colourful work depicts wildflowers which are used as a bush medicine when crushed up with water to use as rubbing ointment for burns, scabies etc.

The artist has also added elements of a story her father, Charlie Jupurrurla Kennedy, taught her when she was a small girl about foxes and how the father fox teaches the young foxes how to hunt and dig holes and hide.

The country depicted is her mother, Balgo artist Sarah Daniels Napanangka's country, close to Mina Mina, in the Tanami Desert.

This painting is part of a body of work that Jeannie painted whilst staying with her mother's sister, acclaimed artist and law woman, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, in Alice Springs.

These paintings were then shown as a solo exhibition in Sydney in 2008.