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The Beginning of Time	Makin’ their Home
$2500.00	$700.00
Artist: Carol Horton	Artist: Carol Horton
These sandstone carvings are the stories of a time gone by but are still very special to the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The stone rock carvings created by our ancestors for the future of generations to come, some have been covered by sand and this is a way of preserving the artwork for hundreds of years to come. These carvings are a reminder of how long Tasmanian Aboriginal people have lived on this land before European settlement (45,000) and are still visited by the Aboriginal community today. The three middle panels are of the handprints/footprints and the people who walked/owned this land. And myself I live to visit and stare in awe at what must have taken hours and hours to complete, it’s really quiet astounding.	The Male and Female Lizards have found the right place to settle down and start their family. The man must go hunt and the woman looks after Her eggs and their home
Mother and pups	Mount Preminghana
$750.00	$2500.00
Artist: Carol Horton	Artist: Carol Horton
This is about the Tasmanian Tiger and how I think they would have lived, before European settlement. Although extinct many people claim to have seen one at different times over the years. This is a mother with her pups, waiting for the male to bring back some food as he’s hunting. The mother waits patiently (he’s been gone an awful long time) with a concerned look on her face, mother cannot leave her pups, they may wonder off and get lost and she knows the dangers of hunting, being caught or worse still, killed! She is their protector	This is a view of the mountain from the beach track looking up at the mountain, it’s what most of our mob call the “saddle” for obvious reasons. And again you see the artwork carved by our ancestors, still there along with all the other cultural significance that belong to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Then when viewing the Mountain from another angle as you drive towards it if you look hard enough you may see a pregnant woman, maybe, you may see many things.
Seasonal Gathering	Turtles at play under a full moon
$700.00	Done on 4 Triangle panels $650.00
Artist: Carol Horton	Artist: Carol Horton
The pattern in the centre of the painting represents the ceremony that will take place that night. Not until all the gathering and hunting has been completed can the ceremony begin. The yellow circles represent the women/ young girls preparing the ground and others are off to gather with the older women and the green oval shapes represent the dilly bags and the small black line is the digging stick. It’s Spring and there are so many seeds/grasses/roots and bulbs to be gathered before the ceremony starts. The men are out hunting, they are the circles on the outside of the painting. The large yellow circles with dots represent the different types of seeds; the brown shapes are the roots/bulbs. There is also the branch of the She Oak ripe with seeds, Cutting grass and the Banksias flower ( which makes the sweetest of drinks and where they are located. Most of these bush foods/medicines are still used today by people in the Aboriginal community. Tonight there will be big ceremony.	This is a story about turtles at play under the full moon. On the full moon the turtles come out to play. Sitting by Mountain Falls I used to watch each night as they came out to play under the moon.
Cultural Gathering	Preminghana - A Special Place
$900.00	Done on 3 panels $2000.00
Artist: Carol Horton	Artist: Carol Horton
The Large Sea Horse represent Myself, the 4 Sea Horses that are the next size down are my 4 children. The other 7 small Sea Horses are my Grand Children. All are listening to Me spreading cultural awareness through the people. The Shells at the edge are the other community people who are gathering to listen to the stories. It’s a culture to share	This three paneled painting is about a very special place for all Tasmanian Aboriginal people. It’s a place of healing and has many, many special sites, some of which I have in this painting. The plants are only found on this land, the Preminghana Daisy (which grows on the South, side of the mountain) is the only place in the world it is found. The different types of bulbs/ roots represent our cultural foods the large colored circles represent our ancestors art carvings in stone, along the beach of this very special place. Then the tee-tree wetlands, the different species of plants, the Preminghana Butterfly again the only place in the world it is found, and to top it all off there is a burial site of an ancestor. A much privileged place to heal.
Misty Mountain	Red Dawn
$700.00	$700.00
Artist: Carol Horton	Artist: Carol Horton
Sitting on Toolumbunna during a walking day. Sitting down having a cuppa and looking out over the mountain. The suddenly from nowhere comes all the mist, changing the landscape completely.	Sitting on the mountain watching a sunset, looking in awe at the redness of the sunset. This was unusual at the time I saw it as there were no fires around to make it this red.
The Link	Mirror Image
$750.00	$3000.00
Artist: Carol Horton	Artist: Carol Horton
This painting represents the strength of a mother. The links are family, us mob and our children linked/tied together to the link in the centre of the painting. This circle represents the mother, if this link is broken then begins the chain reaction; the links start to fall apart slowly. Therefore we must continue to have strong links/ties to our mother, the strongest link.	I myself like to think the tiger is still out there somewhere, but when I dream of them, they are always “ghosts”, so that’s how I paint them. This dreaming about the tiger mostly comes after something has happened in my life when I feel a bit threatened and by who/what I do not know. Dreaming the other night I found myself looking at “my tiger ghost” standing out almost shining and against the mountain terrain, I was staring so hard when I seen him that I couldn’t blink my eyes, then all of a sudden the image I was staring at seemed to crack like a mirror and then there were two, a perfect image.