Danger and DeLight is the theme for Margot Datz’s 12th annual one-night show of original fantasy paintings and prints.

The exhibit takes place Saturday, August 3 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury.

This year’s show was influenced by a difficult health diagnosis.

“In October of last year, I received a rather shocking diagnosis that I had a cancer that only one in a million contract,” she said. She decided to face the challenge with creativity.

“It isn’t an adventure unless there’s an element of true danger,” she said.

Her painting, Betty Burned Her Bonnet For A Better View, opened the door to the journey.

“This whole adventure was all about perception, attitudes and my own way of turning it into something beautiful and useful. I had to burn my bonnet. Of course, my paintings were reflective of that.”

Lipstick On A Pig describes her time up at Mass General Hospital.

“It was our way of putting lipstick on a pig, of making the very best of a bad situation,” she said.

Although the health diagnosis was a surprise to the artist the medical news has been positive of late.

“This diagnosis hit me like a bolt of lightening. The good news was that with treatment, my prognosis is excellent,” she said.