Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was born around 1943 at Tjiturrunya, about 100km west of the Kintore ranges in Western Australia. Following an extended drought in the 1950s, Ronnie's family moved to Haasts Bluff and then on to Papunya where he grew up. Papunya was a government experiment under the policy of assimilation, where mixtures of tribes were thrown together into one community. It was a suppressed and disempowering enviroment, which gave rise to the desire of Ronnie and many other Pintupi residents to move back to their home lands, winning landmark cases in land rights. Whilst in Papunya, Ronnie started painting in the early to mid 1970s. He became a well known artist, regarded as an early innovator and one of the the Central and Western Desert Art movement’s grand masters. In the 1980s, Tjampitjinpa was named as Chairman of the Papunya Tula Artists, which was the pioneer model of aboriginal artists cooperative centers. Ronnie's style tends towards simple, geometric shapes and bold lines. He explores the themes of water dreaming, bushfire dreaming and the Tingari cycle. This painting, depicting a Rain dreaming, is an extremely rare style, as well as the unusual two-tone color. The deepst meanings of Ronnie’s paintings are a mystery only revealed to those initiated in tribal wisdom. Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was the winner of the 1988 Alice Springs Art Prize and is shown in numerous major public and private galleries worldwide, including having exhibited at Seattle Art Museum and the Louvre. He is married to Mary Brown Napangardi and currently spends his time between Alice Springs and his home in Kintore.