Thank you for returning this to the front desk Way to Walcott A slightly singed Kimberley Journey

If you would like a copy emailed to you, please leave your name phone number and email address at the back of the book. Lynne Boladeras Clarkson Curly Girls 31 x 61cm Acrylic on canvas $525

“Smoky blue horizon, lots of caravans, caustic bush with cream flowers, thin yellow ant hills”Beginning of the trip into the Kimberley, eastwards from Broome to Derby. Mt Clarkson to the North of the Great Northern Highway.

Leopold Livistonas 30 x 40cm Acrylic on canvas $495

The start of our journey to the Walcott Inlet. The drive through the Leopold Range is always majestic, especially after the flat country from Sandfire to Broome, and on to Derby.

Grevillea Gorge 28 x 38cm Acrylic $495

“Walked to Gorge, wild pig diggings in creek. A pheasant coucal! Grevillea pteridifolia with orange flowers. Banksia dentataand Pandanusspiralus“One of the Gorges on Beverley Springs Station, a cool place to wander. Pheasant coucals are elusive birds (up to 70cm long) who dart through dry grass to catch frogs and lizards. July 2002

Croc Country 40 x 50cm Acrylic on canvas $550

“Lunch stop sketch. White dragon trees, a snake track, pelican, banded stilt, a harrier chasing a Curlew, huge Sooty Grunters and a 5 foot freshwater croc. A big mob of Bush Thick Knees at Evil Gorge. Helicopter – APB Donkey Shooters.” First day of a 65 km return trek on the Charnley River in July 2002. Sooty Grunters are a type of freshwater bream, very delicious cooked in foil on the coals.

Charnley Challenge 28 x 38cm Acrylic on Canvas $350

Trekking down river in 2002, we came to a stretch of rock we had to walk along, with one leg higher than the other. Of course the opposite leg was affected on the return. Calming Cascades 30 x 40cm Acrylic on canvas $350

Rock hopped through this cool and serene section of the Charnley River in July 2002 on our trek.

No Beyond 30 x 40cm Oil over Acrylic $350

“Walked here from our camp under the cliff face in the distance. Brush Tailed Wallaby. Up and down along gorge edge.” I sat and sketched while Steve explored further. This was as far as we went on our 2002 Charnley River Trek as the terrain ahead was too difficult for me.

Windjana Waits 28 x 38cm Acrylic on paper $650

“Walked in Gorge, about seven km return, painted on the bank. Lots of freshwater crocodiles. Good bowerbird playground at the DEC campgrounds. Sulphur crested cockatoos ripping up the caustic bushes”July 2009

Outer Mt Hart 46 x 28cm Acrylic on canvas $425

“Between Mt Hart Turnoff and Leonard Gorge Turn off. The old Mt Hart Airstrip. Black outcrops, cream foreground”This section is always dusty.

The Arch’s Approach 54 x 73cm Mixed Media $1200

“Red flowered kurrajong near Jameson’s Arch. Pushed onto the Harding Ranges. I waded through the Brockman River to test the depth. Made camp next to the Calder River in the dark rocky river bed. Camp kitchen is under a “River Fig” – Ficuscoronulata.” July 2009 Bachsten 50 x 120cm Acrylic $1200

“Called into the Bachsten Camp, and walked the two km to the Falls. “Quinine Tree” - Petalostigmapubescens- showing orange fruits. Corellas, Red Tailed Black Cockatoos and Red Winged Parrots flew above us.”

Karl’s Pandanus 30 x 40cm Acrylic on canvas $495

“Calder River, burnt sienna, orange-cream-sepia rocks, burnt Melaleuca, spinifex on rocks. Pandanus with orange fruits hanging down.”Began this painting on our Walcott journey in 2005.

Karl’s Dancer 51 x 65cm Acrylic on Canvas $750

In 2005 on our journey into the Walcott, we camped here and I started the painting “en plein air”. On our next trip in 2009, we saw the brolgas, which I incorporated into the work in my shed at home.

Daglish On Duty 25 x 38cm Acrylic on yupo $495

“Passed through the ancient landscape of the Bachsten. Ridges of dry prickly Grevillea with bright red flowers, and yellow Kapok flowers on dead stalks. Plunged down into wet lush gullies with strange leaves and creepers. Cannot even imagine how it must look in the wet season.” August 2009

Harding Dusk 54 x 73cm Mixed Media $1200

“Second day out from Mt Elizabeth managed 96 km, down the Fig Tree Jump Up, into Wren Gorge and past Karl’s Lagoon. Cane grass very high and thick. Found a bare outcrop of rock by a pool for the night. Emu apple tree – Oweniavernicosa – very attractive and shady” August 2009 LOOKOUT! for the tide 50 x 120cm Acrylic $1200

“Green mangroves, grey slopes, glimpse of silver, tall thin red ant hills, dead small burnt trees.” Sitting well away from the treacherous banks I sketched while the men fished for mud crab and mulloway in the Walcott Inlet. The Calder and Charnley rivers flow into this section. July 2005

Tidal Fields Walcott 25 x 38cm Acrylic on yupo $495

Silver eruptions of fish and saltwater crocodiles surf the tide as it rushes in from the ocean through a narrow inlet eighty km away. It fills up like a bathtub, and over a few hours empties again.

Below the Brockman 46 x 91cm Acrylic on Canvas $650

“A great day’s walk up the Calder. Crossed to the south side. Mangrove Jack a long way up stream.Water lillies.”I painted while the others walked upto where the Brockman River joined the Calder. Erythrinaverspertilio flowering red on the north side.

Wunderbah Silent Grove 30x40cm Acrylic on canvas $350

“Good to relax after all that bumping around on the Munja track.”Camped here for a week so saw hundreds of tourists passing through. Painted in the creek, watched over by a Sulphur Crested cockatoo. Overheard German women exclaiming “Wunderbah” under the plentiful hot showers.

Gibb River Road 30 x 40cm Acrylic on canvas $350

“Woman with backpack walking down Gibb Rd from the Kalumburu T junction. Pink calytrix, sparse trees, black and burnt. Dark rocks, grey and cream. Past EllenbraeStn turnoff.”July 2011 Durack Twins 30 x 40cm Acrylic on Canvas $350

“The water is about fifteen metres below us, and above us in the trees on the bank is debris from the last wet. So much water this year. Lots of large cherabin, a few bream and a lot of catfish.”July 2011

Old Mt Elizabeth 28 x 38cm Watercolour $650

“Peacocks and a Bantam hen greeted us,looking for a feed of chook pellets.” They were relocated here from the main homestead for their misbehaviour. Frank Lacy built this homestead in 1947, planting pineapples, guavas and citrus and many other fruit trees. The custard apples and mango trees still flourish, with the Hann River flowing lazily nearby.

Warrla 50 x 120cm Acrylic $1200

“Pretty place on the Hann River, Mt Elizabeth Station. On the track to here were silver Grevilleas, poplar gums, Gubinge and Planchoniacareya flowers, silky white against the bright blue sky”

Wunumurra Burnt 46 x 28cm Acrylic on canvas $425

“Slow drive to Wunumurra Gorge, all burnt. New leaves on the Calytrix, Verticordia and Bossiaea. Good Wandjina figures and maybe some Bradshaws?” The Northern Kurrajong has bright red flowers in the dry season.

Snake LedgeWunumurra30x40cm Acrylic on canvas $350

While cooling off under the waterfall at Wunumurra Gorge we saw a very large snake skin stuck in the ledge. Matthew Gorge Mt Hart 30x40cm Oil over Acrylic $350

“A water monitor very quietly sunned by my feet as I painted the famous Mt Hart Dolomite, tourists brushing past.” July 2011

Manning Stream Burnt 46 x 28cm Acrylic on canvas $425

“Tall dark Green Styptic Trees, their green leaves too high to reach.” After a watercolour down by the river in the morning, ash churned in the air as I painted this in the shade at our camp, with Red Collared Lorikeets playing above me. September 2012

Fig Fingers 28 x 38cm Acrylic on paper $495

“Corellas screeched and pulled at ferns under the Rock fig - Ficusplatypodia.”

March Fly Glen 46 x 28cm Acrylic on canvas $425

“ Leavingthe Imintji community, the Leopold’s were hazy from smoke. Bell Creek Dragon Trees – Sesbania Formosa- pods hanging down.” Too many March flies. Camped there September 2012.

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