Does It Work?

I want to take a few light, easily carried, specifically Australian, gifts to leave in the self-catering accommodation I'm renting in Ireland for 2 weeks and in France for 2 weeks.  When I was out in country New South Wales recently I bought some fridge magnets - small paintings on flat magnets - and suddenly thought - yes - that's it.  Art.  Little.  Not kangaroos and koalas. Not the typical boomerang.  Something else that is uniquely Australian.  

I looked at an old website of a man I know who has a gallery in a town I lived at for 15 years.  I was back there recently and bought some of his cards.  I was surprised by these works which I find fascinating.

John is a realist painter living in the dry harsh outback far from the sea.  Doris lives in her native country in the north east of Australia where the rainforest, the Daintree, meets the sea.  She was taught to paint by the elders of her tribe and English is her second language.  Eight years ago a challenge was set by an Aboriginal art group for an Aboriginal artist and a non Aboriginal artist to collaborate on one work.  John and Doris collaborated on many works.  

Here are a few of them.  Such totally different styles.  Does it work?