Joanne produces fine examples of aboriginal art and paints in the distinctive 2-colour style pioneered by her mother Pansy and the colours in her paintings represent the colours of the bush as she sees them and remembers them from her extensive travels as a young girl.  Joanne’s paintings are from her mother’s dreamings and include Kunga Kutara, Kunga Tjutor and Wanabu Water Snake.

Aboriginal women have their own ceremonies in which a series of song and dance cycles tell of the Ancestral Beings who walked the earth teaching women's law and ceremony to isolated groups living throughout the desert.

Each tribe has its own set of women ancestors with different stories, designs and dances, but most of the ceremonies have one theme common to all groups - that of food gathering as the most important part of women's lives. Men also can depict women's dreamings, but they frown on women painting men's ceremonies. The song and dance cycles mainly revolve around bush tucker, such as yam, banana, wild tomato, plum, onions, honey ants, witchetty grubs, nuts and berries.