Palm Spring Puna-yanima-tag Weir depicts the grass itself

Weir depicts the grass itself

Interest in her work developed quickly

During the 1970s

means 'big rain coming down with lots of wind'

Her painting 'The Escape' done as part of a series of paintings relating to massacre stories by Jirrawun artists intended to be shown together as "Blood on the Spinifex" was exhibited at the Seventeenth National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition in 2000 and was highly commended

Palm Spring Puna-yanima-tag Weir depicts the grass itselfJanet was born in 1959 at Old Flora Valley Station, east of Halls Creek. Her parents were Jaru, her mother from Billiluna and her father from Balgo. Growing up on the station, Janet would go hunting and fishing with the old people. After marrying and living on Kilkimby Station in the Northern Territory, Janet lived between Halls Creek, Kununurra and Billiluna for many years. In Halls Creek, she began painting plant foods and bush meats that she grew