![]() Peter was commissioned by Princess Anne to paint five landscapes of Central Australia. ![]() Peter travelled to Shanghai in 2013 as part of a Desart program and his work is exhibited in numerous private collections and important galleries. Peter returned to Alice Springs in his twenties, where he sat with Keith Namatjira and Clem Abbott to paint landscapes in watercolours which was later purchased in 1995 by Peter's tribal group Pwerte Marnte Marnte. Peter attended an exhibition of Albert Namatjira in Adelaide, which made him very homesick for his old beloved homeland. While attending school in Adelaide, Peter showed an interest in drawing and his skills were further developed by his art teacher Trevor Clare. Peter, as a small boy living in Hermannsburg was influenced by Albert Namatjira's central desert landscapes. Hermannsburg in central Australia is the homeland of Albert Namatjira - the most famous Aboriginal painter of all time. From there they travelled north working from station to station until they came to Hermannsburg, a Western Arrernte community in the MacDonnell Ranges, west of Alice Springs. As a small boy he travelled with his father often by camel or horse, to Horseshoe Bend Station, where his father worked as a station-hand. 1940 at Oodnadatta, south-east of Alice Springs, in the Simpson Desert. The view from the top boasts the taller Mount Zeil to the west, the West MacDonnell Range to the east, Glen Helen, a nearby resort, to the east and Gosses Bluff to the south west on a clear day. This however is not the true summit, which is 750 metres (2,460 ft) away, but has been chosen for safety reasons. Water is available from a water tank 50 metres (160 ft) beyond the carpark, and a direction plate can be found at the summit. Otto Wilhelm Sonder.Ī clearly defined walking track exists up the western side, taking about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi). ![]() The mountain can be seen from the western half of the Larapinta trail, up to Ormiston Pound, which obscures it from then on.Įxplorer Ernest Giles named the mountain in honour of German botanist Dr. The shape of the mountain is a double peak, the relative heights of which are somewhat ambiguous from the summit, although easy to identify from the surrounding plains. It marks one end of the celebrated Larapinta trail, which extends 223 kilometres (139 mi) to Alice Springs. Mt Sonder is 130 km (81 mi) west of Alice Springs along the MacDonnell Ranges in the West MacDonnell National Park. Mount Zeil is the highest at 1,531 metres (5,023 ft), 27 kilometres (17 mi) to the west. Rwetyepme or Mount Sonder (1, 380m- 4, 530ft) is the fourth highest mountain in the Northern Territory, Australia. In Mount Sonder/ Rwetyepme, 74 x 48cm, watercolor
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