"I grew up at Alroy Downs Station. My father was a Bore Runner. He took me out with him while he checked on the bores. The station was always busy, lots of bullockies and goanna and kangaroo, bush turkey, everything! I paint the bores to share and remember my land, my culture."

Depictions of the landscape around her childhood home of Alroy Downs Station have come to constitute a large part of Heather's oeuvre as she reflects on fond childhood memories. Through these station paintings Heather has established a number of recurring motifs such as the windmill and bore, work cars, bullockies and the "cheeky roo" that peers out from behind anthills.

A prolific artist, Heather’s palette is influenced by seasonal changes, which she pays close attention to in her depictions of the daily rituals of station life. Heather’s playful palette and distorted approach to perspective are a nod to the naïve style and the significant influence of her older cousin and fellow artist, Lindy Brodie.

The Tartukula artists with whom Heather paintings are best known for vibrant pastoral landscapes which capture the day to day of station life and speak to the importance of agriculture and water to the people living in the Barkly region, where large cattle stations are part of the region's economic lifeblood.

"I like to paint to show to my kids about my land, my culture like yawulyu and tell stories about bush medicine"

Heather Anderson's childhood on Alroy Downs in the Barkly Tablelands is her greatest influence. The Tartukula Artist is best known for vibrant pastoral landscapes which capture the day to day of staton life and speak to the importance of agriculture and water to the people living in the Barkly region, where large cattle stations are part of the region's economic lifeblood. A prolific artist, Heather employs a bright palette to create narrative pieces which depict the daily rituals of station life, and more recently of her life in Tennant Creek. Her playful palette and distorted approach to perspective are a nod to the naïve style which can be seen in different interpretations throughout the work of the Tartukula Artists.