Wildflowers and Foxholes, 2008 by Jeannie Nakamarra Daniels, 122x122cm, Cat 13720JD

This exurberant, multi-dimensional artwork was painted after well awaited rain in the desert.

The overlaying of black icons over the colourful background depicting wildflowers used in healing and various medicines, depict fox holes and how the father fox teaches his young to hunt, dig holes and hide. The site is Tjikrti.

Like the father fox teaching his young, it was Jeannie's father, Charlie Jupurrurla Kennedy who taught Jeannie these observation and hunting skills when she was a small girl.

This country is her family's traditional custodial country (as it is for her cousin Dorothy Napangardi) close to Mina Mina, in the Tanami Desert, towards the border of Northern Territory and Western Australia.

This painting is part of a body of work that Jeannie painted whilst staying with her auntie, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia for her solo show in Sydney in 2008.