Eric Thake 'Then wrought a tomb and slept' - Collected by Peter cool tones As Australian journalist Martin Flanagan

As Australian journalist Martin Flanagan reflected

Among Australia’s most distinct and celebrated abstractionists

In this original graphic

it proved the opposite

as though MacQueen is remembering these flowers and what they symbolised to her

Eric Thake 'Then wrought a tomb and slept' - Collected by Peter cool tones As Australian journalist Martin FlanaganEvery year, modernist Eric Thake would send his friends a hand made Christmas card. Original linocut prints, these cards have since become canonical, each observing a changing nation through one its most distinct voices. There are notes of humour, critique and poeticism. The second card Thake sent, Then wrought a tomb and slept (1942) is wonderfully whimsical. He imagines a chrysalis as a coffin, turning the caterpillar into Dracula while nearby,