Despite being a great grandmother, Tjunkiya Napaltjarri is very much an up and coming artist at the moment. One of the most original stylists amongst Pintupi women painting today. The sensuality of her painterly brushwork coupled with her striking iconography charges her work with both clarity and immediacy. The brushy scumble of variegated golden, yellow, orange hues, cohere in a luminous surface which feels very alive. The design is composed by leaving the black background of the painting to show through as negative space, outlined by a smeary bordering of beige dots. This joyful painting brings to mind associations of the primitive motifs on Picasso’s ceramics and the work of Paul Klee.