Dora paints the designs inherited from her mother and sister Betty. Dora’s paintings are bold in colour and have flowing, confident, bold brushstrokes uniquely her own. Her colour palette is vibrant and joyful, giving an energetic, uplifting feel to her paintings, while honouring the significance of the traditional iconography. Dora paints Awelye, women’s ceremony, and Bush Melon. She uses liner and curved lines to represent the traditional marks painted on women’s upper bodies for ceremony. These ancient designs are passed down the women’s family line. Only those with Pwerle and Kemarre skin names have custodianship for these designs. While the women of Utopia are known for their vibrant interpretation of Awelye, body paint for ceremony is traditional red ocher and white charcoal and ash. Bush melons are represented by small circular roundels, honouring an important source of food either eaten fresh, or skewered and dried to be stored for when food is scarce. Larger concentric circles can represent soakages or sites where ceremony is performed. Women take turns to be “painted up” for ceremony and then led by the clan elder, sing and dance, passing the song to younger women, keeping the story strong. While Dora’s love of colour in evident in her paintings, the body paint used in ceremony for dreaming stories is red and white for the women of Atnwengerrp.