Benita Woodman
Barkly Regional Arts“I like painting because I can do it with my family.”
Benita Woodman is an emerging artists from Ampilatwatja, Beneita has a long standing interest in art having been taught by her mother and grandmother. Benita comes from a large family of painters that stretch over multiple communities. Her mother and grandmother paint at the Ampilatwatja Art Centre and she has many aunties and cousins painting at the Canteen Creek and Epenarra Art Centres.
Benita has adopted a style that is familiar in the Barkly Region, combining tight networks of dotting with figurative depictions of the land to portray the hill country of Iytwelepenty (the Davenport Ranges).
