The dawn of time

“… Mr Roberts had made extensive painting tours through remote outback regions, and Mr. Mountford, of course, was well known for his anthropological work among the Aboriginal peoples.
He told some of their myths to Ainslie Roberts who began to see these legendary tales in terms of colour and design. The result was his extremely successful collection of paintings first exhibited at the Osborne Gallery, Adelaide, in 1963. In which he captured the glow in colors of the inland and sensitively and imaginatively reflected and interpreted the fantasy and myths of the Aborignes Dreamtime …”