This painting shows country called Gardagoon near Lake Argyle on Texas Downs Station where the artist worked for much of his life. This is part of the artist’s traditional country and was given to him by his grandfather. In the centre the artist has shown three hills in Gardagoon. The dotted areas on the hills are “roads” probably the tracks left by ancestral beings in the Dreamtime. (Source: Waringarri Arts)
This painting was housed in the viewing shed behind Waringarri Arts and was for sale for six years before I purchased it. People would pull the painting out, push it back in, hence some wear on the under surface at the bottom of the frame. I purchased the piece to keep looking at it for its essence of Hector’s personality and his ability to make his country appear to ‘float with spirituality’. Helen Read