Makinti Napanangka (1930 – 2011) was an important Pintupi artist from the Western Desert who lived in the communities in Haasts Bluff, Papunya and Kintore. She began painting in the mid-1990s and developed a unique painterly style that was more gestural in application than that of many other Papunya Tula artists. Two of Makinti’s central motif’s are the rock site Lupul, and a dreaming of two sisters Kungka Kutjarra, whilst the often recurring lines in her paintings (as in the present example) represent ceremonial hair-string skirts. She is known for her unique colour palette, which usually consists of dominant yellows against a deep red ground layer, interspersed with pinks, whites, purple and orange. Whilst her work of the 1990s is darker in colour and composed of tightly grouped roundels, her style changed after a cataract operation in 1999 with her work becoming brighter and with thick, expressive paint marks. Although small in size, this painting by Makinti is a good example of her mature practice with lively paint application and use of colour.