This work is a perfect illustration of the artist's technical mastery, which gives her work a hypnotic quality. It demonstrates the high degree of aesthetic awareness and achievement that Abie Loy has achieved: her own inventiveness combined with the high quality of contemporary desert painting.


 Although she inherited the story from her father, Abie Loy Kemarre's Bush Leaf series depicts the elements of the story that are reserved exclusively for women. The pharmacology of plants is an eminently important area for Aboriginal women and features prominently in many women's ceremonies, as well as in the work of notable women artists such as Gloria Petyarre, a relative of Abie Loy's, who was the first to make this theme famous.