Mary’s art details the rock formations and trees along the Berkley River as part of her ongoing connection to her husband and his country. Having lived and walked the river length with her husband and their children, Mary is acutely familiar with the geography and geology of place. Her swirling circle formations show the eddies of small rock pools and the rock markers along the river banks. Here she played as a girl amongst the ‘aru’- rocks and stones, fishing, swimming and telling stories. Occasional trees, palms and bush flowers add to her compositions of stones and rockholes signifying a particular memory and place of importance. Mary was born in Wyndham and grew up in Oombulgurri (Forrest River). She learned painting from the old people by watching their ground paintings and painted for the first time in 2009. Mary moved to Kalumburu in 2005 to be with two of her seven children. Mary is one of the Traditional Owners for the Balingarra land claim, determined in August 2013.Mary paints her mother's country Jinangi (Camera Pool on the Forrest River, northwest of Wyndham) and also the country of her husband. "The Berkeley River area is my husband's country. We go here for camping out and fishing. Along the river there are large stones and rocks with trees growing out of them. When we have a 'bogey' (shower) we lie down on the flat rocks (tessellated rocks) to dry off."