the artist is from sydney, she is known as del kathyren barton, she one of the most interesting contemporary painters i have seen from australia because her work is feminine, it captures the goddess nature and makes it beautiful, this is more cutting edge and revolutionary than most of the work i have seen in sydney galleries, it is extremely subversive when you consider the art scene here.
her connection to the animal kingdom is overt and sexual, but not disturbing, it all looks very natural, the goddess and the nature spirits are connected by a natural magick. her women have multiple breasts, super feminine, they almost transcend human, these woman lay with wolves, which is a more powerful shamanic energy than running with them, i love her work, it's really quite magnificent and i hope she is successful with it. it really moves me to see painting like this, it's brilliant.