Summer in Zakynthos

A still afternoon over the bay in Zakynthos. Calm sea, summer sky — but the foreground does the work: the aloe and the dry sun-warmed scrub of the headland holding the scene against the blue.

An original watercolour of a quiet Zakynthos cove on 100% cellulose paper. The Ionian island lies off the western coast of Greece — Cephalonia rising in the haze across the strait, the Peloponnese a longer blue distance beyond it — and the clifftop scrub of the southern headlands keeps its colour through the whole summer. A flowering aloe in the foreground, distant islands floating: a small composition of foreground heat and Mediterranean distance.