Jorna paints her mother and father’s Jukurrpa (dreaming) stories that relate directly to her land and the plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories were passed down to her by her parents and their parents before them for millennia. Here she paints the classic iconography of Water and Snake Dreaming.
Married to Paddy Lewis Japanangka, Dorothy's father later in her life she was the half sister to both Peggy Poulson Napurrula and Lorna Nelson and lived at Yuendumu.All Rights Reserved | Gallery Gondwana