Painted size:60 x 60cm. Framed size 67 x 67cm. Maniot Towers are found on the Mani, the western border of the Peloponnese Peninsula of southern Greece. Originally they were vendetta battle towers. Today they are up-market holiday lets.each stone is individually painted and high/low lighted.

40 x 30cm. Framed 43 x 33cm The next-door to the barbers. St John's Antigua.

A Chattel House Business Development. St John's Antigua.

40 x 50cm. Framed 44 x 54cm. Chattel houses were developed as single room accommodation. Simple to erect, simple to move, and then re-erect on a new plot. As homes for the newly emancipated sugar cane slaves in the Caribbean. They were expanded in a modular fashion as the family grew. This a more permanent one is sadly decaying away. St John's Antigua.

Unframed 40 x 50cm. Framed 44 x 54cm. Barthelme [abbreviated to St. Barts in English] is one of the  Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. It is also one of the four islands of The French West Indies along with Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Martin. St Martin would have to be my favourite. 

 Its capital & main harbour is: Gustavia [named after King Gustav III of Sweden]. It is the only Caribbean island to have historically also been a Swedish Colony for any length of time.

St Barts is a very prosperous Euro-zone Island where tourism generates a very high standard of living. It is the playground of the rich and famous and is known for its beautiful pristine beaches, boutique hotels, gourmet dining in chic bistros and high-end designer boutiques. The language, cuisine and culture of St Barts is distinctly French.

This is version One, a feeling of how things once were. 

40 x 50cm unframed.Framed 44 x 54cm. St Barts is a very prosperous Euro-zone Island where tourism generates a very high standard of living. It is the playground of the rich and famous and is known for its beautiful pristine beaches, boutique hotels, gourmet dining in chic bistros and high-end designer boutiques. A distinctly French experience. This is now the sad state of this beauty salon down at the 'wrong' end of the town.

60 x 20cm. Framed 64 x 24cm. A reminder of Ottoman Rule on the Greek Island of Lesbos. Long abandoned, overgrown, decaying, despised...near, but not in, the village of Parakilia. You have to know that it is there. you have to search for it. Do not ask, they may not tell you. [acrylic ink brick version].

60 x 30 x 4cm. Deep edged unframed.A reminder of Ottoman Rule in the Greek island of Lesbos. Long abandoned, overgrown, decaying, despised...[acrylic ink tiled version]. near but not in the village of Parakilia.

50 x 40 cm. Framed 44 x 54cm. A fairly common style of Church architecture, just like Maniot Towers each stone is individually painted and high/low lighted.

50 x 40cm. Framed 53 x 43cm. A typical Dodecanese Island Windmill located on the shore to capture the power of the Meltemi, the howling etesian wind. The first of The art of Meltemi with the highlighted stone work.

Painted size:20 x 60. framed size: 24 x 64cm. This 17th Century bridge paid for by the wealth merchants was once part of the pack-horse or donkey kalderimi. It is parallel to the main-road & near the village of Parakilia, Lesbos, Greece.

40 x 50cm. Framed 44 x 54cm. Dates from the late 14Th. century [c.1392] fell into disuse, 1832 the first property purchased by the Guernsey Ancient Monuments Committee...still with original frescoes but rising damp is an issue. Fabulous stone work. High & lowlights added.

50 x 40cm. Framed 54 x 44cm.. A classic Lincolnshire Fen Church dating back to 1461 a mishmash of stones & bricks...walls all shapes few perpendicular due to soil shrinkage. High & low-lighted brickwork.

50 x 40cm. Framed 54 x 44cm. A recreated monument. Proud Georgian 32lb cannon still on watch, north coast Guernsey.

50 x 40cm. Framed 54 x 44cm..St Caterina's Convent Arequipa. A working 6Th. century convent, with walls painted in brilliant blues and coral pinks. these walls in the harsh unrelenting sunshine at 2 335 metres positively glow. The borrowed funeral pot in the foreground is from Lima dated 700BC.

40 x 50 cm. Framed 44 x 54cm. The Pan-American Highway runs fro Alaska to Argentina. Through most of Peru it runs very close to the Pacific ocean. By day an almost deserted road, by night large convoys of trucks move along it. Along the way there are many rocky beaches with a rich seaweed growth. These shelters barely a metre high & two in diameter are made by piling stones on one another. People 'live' in them to harvest the seaweed at low tide. The seaweed is exported to Japan

40 x 50cm. Framed 44 x 54cm. A building I have now seen four times after dark, while cruising on the river Rhine. So as to what it is what materials its constructed from remain an enigma. Each stone or slate is a unique colour and is individually low/high-lighted.

40 x 50cm. Framed 44 x 54cm. St Evangelistras Monastery. Close to Skiathos Town, the Greek Island of Skiathos. Well worth the mini-bus fare up. The peace, the tranquillity, the pure air, spiritual? Yes. An interesting walk down or continue over to the other-side of the island from here...well worth the views.

40 x 50 cm. Framed 44 x 54cm. A restored church/ small Byzantine basilica in a plaza. The first of the new art from the Studio of meltemi with highlighted stone work. Positively glowing in the heat of the mid-day August sunlight. Not a situation to sketch in again. Currently my studio's post-card image.

50 x 40cm. Framed 54 x 44cm.. Late spring, a hot day, the Greek island of Santorini, a cliff-face, three things collide...a dragon arum...an ancient temple's column...an orthodox church's dome...

50 x 40cm. Framed 54 x 44cm. Zakinthos in the south of the Ionian sea is to Greece what Ireland is to the UK. If its going to rain it does. The last day of the holiday a steep & rough mountain track. Greek maps? Entertainment for the tourist. This church almost unknown to the locals. Almost made it. The heavens opened  the track now lethal so no sketch...no photo so its all memory. Saint Andrew: Patron saint for: craftsmen, singers, golfers and performers. The Greek Andreas is associated with manhood & valour. He travelled widely becoming the patron saint of See of Byzantium. He is said to have been martyred by crucifixion at Patras [mainland Greece, Peloponnisos and now the patron saint for this town]. Not quite how to treat your patron saint is it? He was bound, not nailed, to a Latin cross of the kind on which Christ was crucified.The myth developed that Andrew was crucified on a cross of the form called decussate cross [the X-shaped cross] commonly known as 'Saint Andrew's Cross' or the 'Saltire' this was supposedly at his request, as he deemed himself unworthy of being crucified on the same type of cross as Christ. Today this X-cross is a common piece of equipment in bondage circles...I'm told.... 

61 x 46 x 4cm gallery wrapped not framed. A beautiful blue dome, the white walls glowing in the heat of the July noonday sun...not one to sketch. Santorini probably has one church for each day of the year.

61 x 46 x 4cm gallery wrapped not framed. A one-time beautiful domed Santorini church... earth quakes, land-slips still very attractive.

 A reclaimed gold waxed frame size 36 x 31cm. In sand textured acrylics on hardboard. The last artwork on this surface before opting for canvas. A door in a mountain Greek Village close to the Bulgarian border, so remote that modern spoken Greek is a second language. It will probably be gone now, replaced by modern plastics.

60 x 30cm. Framed 63 x 33cm. Sand textured paints on a MDF panel. A once grand home with a once beautiful door. Ravaged by time and earth movement.

60 x 30 cm. Framed 64 x 34cm. Sand textured paints on a MDF panel. The last artwork on a non-canvas support. Next door another long abandoned earth quake ravaged building, a narrow alley-way, the heat of the mid-day sun...