Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting an array of colourful fruit including oranges, apples and mandarins

Gallery

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Justice Michael Kirby standing at turning his head to the viewer in a semi-formal pose with a red tie and a black background which envelops his suit so that it blends seamlessly and accentuates his face

Portraits

A detail of a painting of fruit by Josonia Palaitis featuring lemons and oranges and plums and banannas

Still Life

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a naked old man biting his knee and drawing blood with a scary dark blue ghoulish figure flying above him

Metamorphoses

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting politician John Howard sitting on a bench in front of a brick wall wearing sandals, shorts and a short-sleeved paisley blue shirt

Early Portraits

Oil Painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting large grey boulder rocks and a few pine saplings with a blue sky and ocean horizon

Early Works

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting an old woman who is a widow from the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea with thick white cracking clay caked on her face wearing a brown headdress and shoulders and neck adorned with hundreds of beads

PNG

Portraits

Still Life

Metamorphoses

Early Portraits

Early Works

PNG

SELECTED PORTRAITS

An oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Patrick Dodson standing in front of a gum tree trunk wesaring jeans with his hands in his pockets and an open blue jacket that is filled by his huge white beard and he's wearing a black hat with black, red and yellow stripes in recognition of his Aboriginal ancestry

Patrick Dodson, Yawuru Man
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1998
180 x 140 cms
Collection: National Library of Australia
Finalist: 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Winner: Peoples’s Choice Award, Salon Des Refuses, Sydney

Portrait painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting cartoonist Bill Leak sitting on a stool in his studio with brushes and paints in the background

Bill Leak
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1995
175 x 130 cms
1995 Archibald People’s Choice
Private Collection: Perth W.A.

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Justice Michael Kirby standing at turning his head to the viewer in a semi-formal pose with a red tie and a black background which envelops his suit so that it blends seamlessly and accentuates his face

Justice Michael Kirby
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2006
145 x 115 cms
Collection: Supreme Court of NSW
Finalist: 2006 Archibald Prize

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An oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Dr Cindy Pan wearing a red and white sleeveless dress holding a chinese fan standing next to a vase of mixed colourful flowers looking away from the viewer with an expression of happiness and hope with a rich red and orange background

Dr Cindy Pan
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2001
165 x 130 cms
Invitational touring exhibition:
Portraits 2001 – An Australian Odessey

An oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting tv personality Ray Martin standing on a couch with a camera in his hand wearing a red an blue checked shirt with his hand resting on top of a white bookshelf with books, photos and a couple of gold tv logie awards on the shelves

Ray Martin
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1996
200 x 140 cms
Finalist: 1996 Archibald Prize

Oil on canvas portrait painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting journalist Paddy McGuiness standing and wearing a black shirt with his thumbs tucked into his belt wearing his glasses and sporting a big white beard

Paddy McGuinness
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2003
150 x 110 cms
Private Collection
Finalist: 2003 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Portrait painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Dr David Tiller sitting in front of a bookshelf with his hands together looking relaxed and wearing his white physician coat

Dr David Tiller
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1997
120 x 90 cms
Collection: Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Prime Minister John Howard with his arm around his wife Janette Howard with Sydney Harbour and a gum tree as a backdrop from the location of Kirribilli House

Prime Minister John Howard and Janette Howard
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2000
140 x 140 cms
Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Professor Peter Drake sitting on a couch in a formal pose wearing his ceremonial robes in black, gold and red

Professor Peter Drake
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1996
140 x 110 cms
Collection: Australian Catholic University

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting her aunty at the age of 100 standing in front of a yellow background wearing a black cardigan and bead necklaces with pink Australian wildflowers in the foreground

Aunty Syd and Her 100 Years
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2004
100 x 90 cms
Finalist: Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

An oil painting depicting artist John Mills painted by her daughter Josonia Palaitis showing her elderly father at the entrance to a door holding a walking stick and looking at the viewer with a spirited smile

John Mills
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1992
150 x 110 cms
Collection: Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
Winner: 1994 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

An oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting her elderly mother sitting on a couch with coloured knitted blankets behind her holding a messy ball of string and looking anguished

The Artist’s Mother
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1999
150 x 110 cms
Collection: Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
Finalist: 2002 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting journalist Paul Lyneham leaning back in an office chair at his desk with lots of papers and stationery on the desk and on shelves with his jacket hanging behind him as he looks away from the viewer deep in thought wearing a white shirt and red toned tie

Paul Lyneham
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1992
135 x 135 cms
Finalist: 1992 Salon Des Refuses, Sydney
Winner: People’s Choice

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting James Spigelman, Chief Justice of NSW standing with a pure black background holding white gloves and wearing his court wig and red and white gown

James Spigelman, Chief Justice of NSW
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2007
155 x 115 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a woman standing awkwardly behing a vase full of orchids in flower

Young Woman of the Shadows
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1996
110 x 85 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting two friends after a day picking mushrooms with the man holding a white box full of mushrooms and the woman beside him, both smiling triumphantly as darkness sets in and the hint of a flash photograph is discerned

Phillip Searle with Lizzie
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1999
140 x 100 cms
Finalist: 1999 Salon Des Refuses, Sydney
Collection of the artist

Portrait painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Cardinal Edward Clancy dressed in his red and black robes with a crucifix on a chain around his neck standing in front of a sandstone arch

Cardinal Edward Clancy
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1998
100 x 80 cms
Collection: Sydney Archdiocese
Finalist: 1998 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a close up view of the face of Thomas Keneally smiling with his teeth showing wearing sunglasses and a blue cap with the ocean horizon in the background

Thomas Keneally – A Close View
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2000
220 x 130 cms
Finalist: 2000 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting musician James Morrison sitting at a grand piano with a trumpet resting on it as he turns the pages of music score

James Morrison
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1993
210 x 180 cms
Finalist: 1993 Archibald Prize

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a nun in full atite wearing a crucifix sitting beside a window with a view to the ocean

Sr Mary Baptist De Lacy (1799-1879)
Sister of Charity, Co-Founder & first Trustee of St Vincent’s Hospital
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2011
95 x 75 cms
Collection: Trustees of St Vincent’s Hospital

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a man with a white wig wearing black ceremonial attire standing in a hallway

John Hubert Plunkett (1802-1869)
NSW Attorney-General, President Legislative Council and first Trustee of St Vincent’s Hospital
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2011
95 x 75 cms
Collection: Trustees of St Vincent’s Hospital

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a man holding an old style mobile phone, wearing a white face mask standing with three books balancing on his head to create an unusual portrait

Space For Art
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1995
65 x 55 cms

Selp portrait of Josonia Palaitis holding a broken rice paper screen wearing a black singlet with an ominous shadow in the background

Self Portrait
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2005
116 x 90 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis featuring a man and a woman both on horseback in front of the ocean on a windy yet sunny day, both smiling and looking at the viewer

Kim and Robert Kiyosaki
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2002
125 x 110 cms
Private collection, Arizona USA

SELECTED STILL LIFE

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis featuring a lushious array of green plants in photorealistic style with the hint of an ocean horizon in the background through the leaves

Faraway Fantasy
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1995
100 x 72 cms

Oil Painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a colourful fruit stall with apples, bananas, pears and mandarins with people browsing in the background

Fruit Stall, Paddy’s Markets
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1992
122 x 92 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a close up display of meat cuts at a butcher's shop with price labels attached to skewers

Meat
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1995
122 x 92 cms

Photorealistic oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting 15 salmon heads arranged on silver foil looking to the left

Heading Left
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2003
63 x 45 cms

Photorealistic painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a full bowl of cherries placed on a wooden floor

Cherries
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2003
40 x 50 cms

Photorealistic painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a box filled with peaches placed on a wooden floor

Peaches
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1996
40 x 50 cms

Photorealistic painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a dozen eggs in a carton placed on a brown tiled floor with the lid open

Eggs (Carton)
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2001
40 x 50 cms

Photorealistic oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting an arrangement of 20 eggs on a patterned silk fabric in earthy tones

Eggs
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2003

An photorealist oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a small branch from a lemon tree resting on old timber decking with 5 ripe yellow lemons attached

Lemons
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2002

Photorealist oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting droplets of water on a polished wooden floor

Waterdrops
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2003
40 x 50 cms

Phototrealist oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting 12 punnets of strawberries arranged symmetrically on a persian rug and viewed from above

Strawberries
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2003

Photorealist oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a large plate of strawberries placed on a white tablecloth viewed from directly above

Plate of Strawberries
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2003

Photorealist oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a fish on a white plate with the cork handle of a fishing rod and the fly placed next to it

River Brown Trout – “Suzie”
Artist : Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2008
56 x 37 cms

Photorealist oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting an arrangement of prawns all facing towards the right and viewed from above resting on a green and white tablecloth

Prawns
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 2003

Photorealist painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting an apple tree with a blue sky backdrop with scores of ripe red apples ready to pick

Apple Tree
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1996

METAMORPHOSES

In 2007 Jo created and exhibited a new body of work based upon Ovid’s Metamorphoses. These humorous and sometimes grotesque allegorical paintings are an expressive adjunct to her realism.

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting earthen figures appearing from the rocks beside a river with a washed up boat and low cloudy sky in the background

Deucalion and Pyrrha
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a naked woman showering in a blue tiled bathroom

Danae
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a naked old man biting his knee and drawing blood with a scary dark blue ghoulish figure flying above him

Erysichthon’s Punishment
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a baby still attached to the umbilical cord being pulled from the bloodied belly of a woman who has an arrow stuck in her and in the background there is a centaur with the whole dramatic scene surrounded by fierce flames

Aesculapius
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Metamorphoses depicting Midas with his head in his hands sitting beside a waterfall and outside of a cave with a purple hat beside him on the ground

Midas
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a man getting in a pool with a woman kneeling on a patterned rug looking at him through a glass window

Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a white cow swimming in the sea with a beach in the background and a woman wearing pink holding one of its horns

Abduction of Europa
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses with three black dogs and naked figures in the background titled the abduction of proserpina

Abduction of Proserpina
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting humanoid figures dancing aroung a hills hoist washing line with magpies sitting atop and a brick wall and jacaranda tree in the background

Minerva and the Muses
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting hercules sitting on a small mound with his chest open and showing ribs and blood pouring like a river from his body with fiery flames behind him and candles in the foreground

Hercules
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a screaming baby coming our of a tree trunk akin to giving birth with blood in the foreground

Birth of Adonis
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 20 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a fullsome and youthful head with hair made up of grapes and leaves

Bacchus
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 30 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting an old sickly woman with green flesh appearing from the darkness with asps at her fingertips

The Cave of Envy
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 30 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a shadowy figure with a chainsaw choopping the head off a man with blood spurting from his neck and a felled tree behind them in a forest setting

Erysichthon’s Crime
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 30 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a couple making love with a Roman helmet on the bedhead and a group of seven cyclists in the background peering through open roller doors

Mars and Venus
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 30 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting half a woman with long hair being pursued by a stick-like figure with large rays of sunlight in the background and a border of green leaves

Daphne and Apollo
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 30 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a naked bald man lying on the ground in a pool of blood with a black boar, wolves, poppies and a blue sky forming the backdrop

Death of Adonis
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 30 cms

Painting by Josonia Palaitis based on Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting a man lying in a pool of blood with blood spurting up and hitting the green leaves of the tree he's underneath

Pyramus and Thisbe
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on linen – 2007
20 x 30 cms

EARLY PORTRAITS

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting politician John Howard sitting on a bench in front of a brick wall wearing sandals, shorts and a short-sleeved paisley blue shirt

The Honourable John Howard MP
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1979
186 x 186 cms
Finalist: 1980 Archibald Prize
Collection of the artist

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting musician Adrian Dangerfield standing in front of a brick wall covered with vine leaves holding a mug of tea with the other hand in his pocket wearing jeans and a white t-shirt

Musician Adrian Dangerfield
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1981
183 x 152 cms
Finalist: Archibald Prize

Oil Painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting three elderly couples dancing and as two couples pass each other, the two women turn to kiss eack other whilst still embraced by their male companions with the other woman being embraced and kissed on the cheek by her male companion with a beige background

80th Birthday Party
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1980
152 x 95 cms
Finalist: 1980 Sir John Sulman Prize

Portrait painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting politician John Down with a suit and stripy tie

John Dowd, AO
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1980
160 x 160 cms
Finalist: 1980 Portia Geach Memorial Award
Collection: The Lane Cove Municipal Art Collection

Self portrait painting by Josonia Palaitis with the artist wearing jeans and a white singlet sitting on a chair with a flowing blue and white abstract background

Self Portrait
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1983
152 x 122 cms
Finalist: Portia Geach Memorial Award

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a man named Ed Palaitis with a moustache sitting in a chair barefoot and in shorts and a short sleeved shirt with a red curtain background and a garden visible through a window

Ed Palaitis
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1983
152 x 122 cms
Finalist: Portia Geach Memorial Award

EARLY WORKS

Oil Painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting large grey boulder rocks and a few pine saplings with a blue sky and ocean horizon

Untitled (Magnetic Island)
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1980
153 x 153 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a boulder balancing on large rocks with a small tree to the left and the ocean horizon forming the backdrop

Formal Arrangement
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1982
152 x 95 cms
Collection: Kazokas Collection, Lithuania

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a large boulder with leaves behind

Oppressive Rock, Magnetic Island
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1981
152 x 152 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Uluru with a vibrant sky and greenery in the foreground

Uluru
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1983
213 x 137 cms
Finalist: 1983 Blake Prize, Sydney

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting the thick Australian bush with a little sky showing

Mountains Aspect I
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on Canvas – 1980
153 x 153 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting Lavender Bay in Sydney with three palm tress in the foreground and the Harbour Bridge in the background with boats at anchor

We’ve Got it All, Lavender Bay
Oil on canvas – 1976
130x 130 cms
Signed MILLS (maiden name)
Exhibited City Heritage Competition

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a still life arrangement of naked figurines sitting on a blue and white tablecloth

Figurines on Batik
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1990
25 x 30 cms

Oil painting by Josoina Palaitis depicting a still life arrangement of a conch shell and two red flowers sitting on a blue and white tablecloth

Still Life with Shell
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1990
43 x 50 cms

Still life oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting bottlebrush branches and flowers in a blue vase

Untitled (Banksia)
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1989
43 x 50 cms

Still life oil Painting by Josoina Palaitis depicting sunflowers in front of a pink background

Untitled (Sunflowers)
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1989
50 x 43 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a still life arrangement of purple and yellow flowers in a vase

Untitled
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1989
43 x 50 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palitis depicting an arrangement of capscums, eggplants and other green vegetables

Capsicums
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1989
43 x 50 cms

watercolour by Josonia Palaitis depicting six magpies being feed by hand on grass with prominent shadows and the legs and hand of a person wearing jeans

Hand Out
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Watercolour – 1994
43 x 63 cms

Watercolour by Josonia Palaitis depicting fifteen predominantly green lorikeets feeding on the large flower of a palm tree with a blue sky background

Flowering Palm and Lorikeets
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Watercolour – 1990
75 x 57 cms

Watercolour by Josonia Palaitis depicting the reflections of boulders and tress with a blue sky

Reflections, Magnetic Island
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Watercolour – 1988
45 x 60 cms

PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 1970s

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a village men and women standing in front of grass huts with puddles on the grass reflecting the grey sky and a mountain and large tree in the background

After the Rain, Yombi Village, Southern Highlands
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1975
91 x 122 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting the profile portrait of a PNG man from the Highlands with lots of feathers from his headwear and traditional painted face in reds and blues

Highland Man, Western Highlands
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1974
46 x 37 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a sing sing in PNG with lots of men in traditional dress with lots of feathers and straw dresses

Mount Hagen Sing Sing
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas board
35 x 45 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting an old woman who is a widow from the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea with thick white cracking clay caked on her face wearing a brown headdress and shoulders and neck adorned with hundreds of beads

Widow, Southern Highlands
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas board – 1974
46 x 37 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a man with curly hair and a beard from the Papua New Guinea Highlands with his arms crossed and smiling with the strap of a billum visible

Highland Man from Mendi, Southern Highlands, PNG
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas board – 1974
46 x 36 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting an expansive landscape of rolling mountains in Papua New Guinea with a small village in the foreground showing people at a distance, trees and grass huts

Highland Village
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas board – 1974
46 x 37 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis of an eastern Highland woman from Papua New Guinea with a large plume of tan coloured feathers as haeddress and her face painted in vibrant colours of red, yellow and green and she stands visible from the naked torso up, seen from the side, looking to the right

Young Highland Woman, Eastern Highlands, PNG
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas board – 1974

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis depicting a woman from Mendi in the Papua New Guinea Highlands standing with her hands holding her chin, wearing a grass skirt and carrying a full billum by having it carried by her head with a lush geen landscape in the background

Highland Woman, Mendi, PNG
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas – 1974
75 x 60 cms

Oil painting by Josonia Palaitis titled Huli Wigman showing a man from the Papua New Guinea Highlands with arms crossed wearing a bright white shell necklace and a headdress made of yellow flowers and feathers with the strap of a billum visible over his bare shoulder

Huli Wigman, PNG Highlands
Artist: Josonia Palaitis
Oil on canvas board – 1974
45 x 35 cms