Maureen Hudson Nampitijinpa was born in 1959 at Mount Allan of Anmatyerre / Warlpiri descent. Her country is Mt. Wedge and Mt. Ellen (Kerrinyarra). Maureen's father had two wives, Rosie and Lena who were sisters. Rosie had 2 children, Allan Norman and Jean Nampitjinpa. Lena had four children, Maureen, Micha, Emily and Judith. Maureen's father passed away in 1972 when Maureen was 12 years old. Her mother (Lena) re-married to Peter Brown Jungala and had another 5 children. Maureen was educated at Yuendumu Settlement and later returned to Mt. Allen and worked as a teacher's aide for three years and has 4 children, Michael, Jillian, Gwenda and Anderson Turner. She began painting in 1981 and was encouraged to pursue a full time career as an artist after observing the work of senior artists for years. Like her older sister, Jean Hudson Nampitjinpa, she began to paint regularly for herself. Her work has been hailed around Australia and internationally for its sense of perspective and fine layering in which the land formations appear to be folding in on themselves - especially when viewed from a distance. This painting depicts the sandhill country surrounding Mount Allan, this is Maureen’s homeland. The oblique lines represent the sand hills. This is a geographical depiction of the country from which Maureen came.