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Namatjira's artworks were colourful and varied depictions of the Australian landscape.
One of his first landscapes from 1936, Central Australian Landscape, shows a land of rolling green hills.
Another early work, Ajantzi Waterhole ( 1937 ), shows a close up view of a small waterhole, with Namatjira capturing the reflection in the water.
The landscape becomes one of contrasting colours, a device that is often used by Western painters, with red hills and green trees in Red Bluff ( 1938 ).
Central Australian Gorge ( 1940 ) shows detailed rendering of rocks and reflections in the water.
In Flowering Shrubs Namatjira contrasts the blossoming flowers in the foreground with the more barren desert and cliffs in the background.
Namatjira's love of trees was often described so that his paintings of trees were more portraits than landscapes, which is shown in the portrait of the often depicted ghost gum in Ghost Gum Glen Helen ( c. 1945-49 ).
Namatjira's skills at colouring trees can be clearly seen in this portrait.

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