Charmaine paints dreamings passed to her by her grandmother Minnie Pwerle. Charmaine and at the women of Utopia famously paint Awelye, referring to women’s ceremony relating to women’s business (which includes important traditional knowledge, laws, customs, rites and ceremonies). Awelye paintings typically represent the body painting associated with these rites and ceremonies. Only those with Pwerle and Kemarre skin names have custodianship for these designs. Awelye body painting is a sacred ritual for Utopian women. Older women lead the ceremony and paint designs on the upper bodies, torso and breasts of the women. The women sing songs for that ceremony, while each in turn is painted up. Singing is an important part of the ceremony. It serves to teach younger women the story and ritual of ceremony, keeping the traditions and culture alive. Patterns are painted in the body with fingers or a typale, a flat stick with soft padding using powdered ochres, charcoal and ash paints. Charmaine’s paintings reflect the inherited dreaming from her grandmother, Minnie Pwerle, with the bold, linear marks representing the ceremonial body paint. Charmaine confidently incorporates marks representing dancing tracks made by women performing ceremony and sacred sites where the ceremonies are held giving Charmaine’s paintings a dynamic movement that is distinctive and unique to her. She is an established artist whose talent is evident and her work is highly sought after by collectors.