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Ada is an Alyawarr woman born on her mother’s country Ampilatwatja in 1959. Part of a very large extended family, Ada had been living with her mother Jilly Holmes and her sister Michelle Pula Homes in the small community of Ampilatwatja, where she painted until she moved earlier this year to be closer to her children and grandchildren in the tiny out station of Wettengerr in the Epenarra Community. Wettengerr is Ada’s Grandfather and father’s ancestral country, it lies on Alyawarr land approximately 500 kms north east of Alice Springs.
Ada began painting in 2012 developing her extraordinary style of realist landscape painting using layers of colour by expertly utilising multiple shades of green resulting in Ada’s landscapes being reminiscent of English gardens. After a good rainy season in the desert the arid landscape of Central Australia becomes a colour field and holds an abundance of birdlife and flowery fields of native plants.