Shirley Dixon - Women harvesting bush tomatoes

$171.00

Size: 46 × 20 cm

Size: 46 × 20 cm

Free postage within Australia

Catalogue: 25/110

This painting is a story about Aboriginal women who live in remote communities in Central Australia and how they go out into the bush to find bush tomatoes. The women are represented by the curved shapes and they have their digging sticks beside them.

After a big rain the plants grow small purple flowers, followed by hard green fruit which slowly stats to ripen in the sun. When the fruit is yellow it is ripe and ready to eat. After a lot of sun the fruit dries and becomes brown it is still good to eat the brown dried fruit.