Swirling landscapes reflect the beauty of the natural world and its fragility as earlier in the year Australia experienced immense bushfires while England had some of the worse flooding in a generation from record rainfalls and, meantime, the impact of climate change is all around us, not least in the shrinking of the ice caps and the rise of water levels around the world.  Then, unanticipated by the artists on show at J D Malat, though some of the more troubled and distorted images could well reflect it, the world is now gripped in the epidemic of coronavirus with many people contracting the virus, most surviving, but some dying, and the world’s political leaders seemingly unable to come together to solve this world problem.

J D Malet’s group show focused on aspects of 21st century human life was the last before the shutters came down on art galleries across the world.  Its latest show, which would have opened today (1st April), on Abstraction and the Natural World is now on-line.