Central Art is honoured to present a special exhibition celebrating the water colour landscape paintings by Peter Taylor Tjutjataja.

Peter Taylor follows an unbroken tradition of Hermansburg watercolours that goes back more than six decades, when Albert Namatjira became one of the most sought after Australian artists in Australia in the mid 20th Century.

Peter told me that when he was a young child at Hermansburg he would sit and watch Uncle Albert paint and he recalls that Natamjira said to him ‘you’ll be an artists too one day’’, says Sabine Haider, Director of Central Art.

The recent demand for acrylic paintings from the Central and Western Desert has overshadowed the Indigenous water colour artists, but they still play a major role in contemporary Aboriginal art.

These works hold a very special interest for me because of the masterful way Peter can capture the beauty and the soul of his country. I have never met an artist who is so in love with his homeland and he produces his very best works when he is out bush, says Haider.

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(Photo: Rainbow Valley by Peter Taylor Tjutjatja © 2008 Central Art)