This is a homage also to 70s Europop and disco anthems like Marc Cerrone and his classic dance hit Supernature, which to me during the early Covid19 lockdowns was really prophetic. The painting has references to an Egyptian God escorting the dead, our constantly changing attitudes to death throughout the Millennia from the gruesome to the spiritual, our internal monsters manifesting in the growth of the far-right, and Marilyn because, well, who wouldn’t want Marilyn dancing on your grave, especially since this painting is part of a theme across several canvases which I titled: Shadow Dancing. It is painting about our ecosystem fighting back.

These are my first drypoint prints for decades - Akinesia and Gloria which I did today. My pet project is reworking a selection of my visual diaries over the past 3 decades. I wanted to do a series of prints, but it's been two decades since I did any etchings and I don't own a press. So, I'm incredibly grateful to printmaker Monika Lukowska-Appel here in Perth in Western Australia at the Midland Arts Junction who ran a workshop for artists in my area.