Warlpiri artist Maureen Hudson Nampijinpa draws on a broad collection of traditional stories to create the diverse range of styles and motifs that we see in her paintings. She was born around 1952 at Mt Allan cattle station near Yuendumu. She has since moved to Alice Springs where she paints regularly for local and interstate galleries. Maureen's paintings or Dreaming originate from Warlukalongu, her father's and grandfather's country, and involve Emu and Fire from her father's side and Women's Ceremony from her mother's side. Maureen's first love is painting which she refers to as 'culture art'. Other subjects painted include Tali or sandhill designs, depicting the iconic features of the artist’s desert country homelands. Her work is recognised for her subtle skills in creating the desert landscape as it is formed and changed by the elements, capturing the rhythm and vastness of the Central Australian country.