TRUST me, you need to get across to Tuggeranong Arts Centre to see Sarah Brown’s exhibition “Back of Beyond” before the end of the month.

With more red dots indicating sales than I’ve seen in ages, her show is a tribute to what the centre is calling “the addictive beauty of her home,” the Western Desert of Central Australia.”

Brown is a self-described “paintaholic” and says that just to indulge herself in paint and canvas she used to work on Saturday mornings in an art-supply shop.

A remote-area nurse for many years and now CEO of Western Desert Dialysis, she was besotted with the country that she saw in the outback but says she had “little time or headspace to pick up a brush”. When she finally settled in Alice Springs in 2003, she says,: “I had no excuses left and I enrolled in a painting night class.”

The results are spectacular. With a curious mixture of pointillism, Aboriginal-inspired dot painting and magic realism, she conjures up theWestern Desert in brilliant colours.

This show, according to Brown is her first foray interstate.

She recommends a visit toCentral Australiato everyone, saying, “These places are… brimming with life and beauty, and are full of spiritual meaning and knowledge for Aboriginal people,” she says.

“Back Of Beyond (or  places a long way from Canberra)” recent works by Sarah Brown, at Tuggeranong Arts Centre until October 27.