Delvine shares Alhalkere country and its stories with her sisters. Like other Utopian artists, they represent the Yam Spirit Dreaming in the paintings of their country. The Atnwelarre Dreaming (Bush Yam, Pencil Yam) was passed to her from her father’s country. The Bush Yam is an important part of survival in traditional life for the women of Utopia. Its roots, swollen tubers like a sweet potato, are an important source of food and water, the seeds are collected and ground to make flour for damper. Yam Spirit dreaming is strictly women’s business. This ancient dreaming is kept alive through holding ceremony, singings its songs and through painting, paying homage to country and the Yam Spirit, honouring its significance to the people of Utopia and its continued abundance. Delvine’s painting has been most inspired by her older sister, Anna. She paints with a minimalist palette of predominantly black and white. Using a tiny dropper bottle of white paint on a black canvas, she meticulously builds an abstract areal view of her country depicting the ridges of undulating sand hills and the dry riverbeds with their life giving soakages and other important geographical features of the land with tiny dots. She creates an atmospheric impression of country that is contemporary while honouring 60,000 years of her ancestral traditions and country. Her growing popularity and contemporary aesthetic is seeing her paintings become increasingly sought after in both private and public collections in Australia and around the world.