Untitledby Marie Young

Marie Young was born on the 15th April in 1962. Her country is Yamba Station area in Central Australia. Marie Young is one of an extraordinarily talented group of sibling, brother Johnny is a bush toy masker, and sister Camilla and Leonie are fine painters. All the Young siblings have been added to fine art collections, public and private in Australia and overseas. Marie has been painting with Keringke since 1995. About her art Marie says: " I like to use the desert colours, the orange and the ochre colours. I particularly like the use really bright colours on silk and ceramics. Sometimes I go out bush with my brother and I look at all those colours, the desert colours are bright and vibrant where we live.

I like to paint around a centre or I get lost in the pattern. I always start in the middle, just like if I go out bush and I walk away from the camp, if I don't keep looking back there. I would be lost. I put down the big painted shapes first, and the bit in the middle and then I go fro  there. I use the own designs that have come to me from years of painting. I use my own colour ideas to. Next I fill in the larger sections with motifs that I recognise, but that don't have other meaning. Last thing is to look over the whole painting and to put all the really fine dots in, making the whole surface be together, like it looks I my country.  I like to paint neat and detailed work, it represents what I like in life. Before people used to match sticks to paint, but now we have these little bottles and brushes.

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