Aboriginal artist, Bernadine Johnson paints mesmerizing artworks depicting the hundreds of gathered medicine leaves drying in the sun before being used for traditional medicine.
These paintings are inspired by tens-of-thousands of years of traditional medicine preparation and usage by the Central and Western Desert Aboriginal peoples.
Bernadine's paintings contain a pulsating rhythm, characteristic of the bush medicine leaf style. In between each painted stroke, the artist inserts tiny white painted dots to indicate the medicine seeds of the plant. Bernadine's fluid paintings add a relaxing ambience to any room.
Bernadine Kemarre was born in 1974 in the Ltyentye Apurte Community (Santa Teresa), approx. 80km east of Alice Springs, Northern Territory and had a traditional upbringing before attending school in Alice Springs.
Bernadine comes from a family of famous artists including Abie Loy and Josie Petrick Kemarre that have emerged from the Utopia area in the NT. Her sister-in-law is Anna Price Petyarre, one of the most sought after Central Desert artists. She learnt from a young age the art of painting her dreamings, ceremonies, and important bush foods and medicines onto canvas.
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