Pencil Yam Flower by Elizabeth Loy (SOLD)

With the small swift strokes of an applicator bottle, Elizabeth captures the untamed movement of the leaves and yellow flowers of a trailing herb as it emerges from the ground after significant rain and sweeps across the desert floor, bringing the bush to life. This trailing herb is an important plant because it produces small edible tubers that are a most favoured food and still harvested today.

Elizabeth uses green, yellow and white in this painting to convey authenticity in the colours.

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Elizabeth Kngwarreye and the Pencil Yam Flower

Artist

Name: Elizabeth Loy Kunoth
Skin name: Kngwarreye
Language group: Anmatyerre
Country: Alhalkere 
Region: Utopia, Central Australia
Born: 1961

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