Sandy Bay Chapel
This little chapel stands on the South Atlantic island of St Helena, beside the road down to Sandy bay. On either side the slopes of the valley are bare and brown, and close by stands the great monolith known as Lot. Lot was probably so-named simply because there is another, rather thinner monolith further down the valley, and this smaller pillar of rock is an obvious candidate for the title of Lot's Wife.
Mr and Mrs Lot are both volcanic plugs. They began their lives, millions of years ago, as spurts of molten lava but they never completed their journey from the subterranean vaults underlying the ocean floor. Instead, they remained inside the volcanic cinder cone, cooling and solidifying. Being very much harder than the cone they endured while it was gradually weathered away.
(Watercolour - 22 x 15" / 56 x 38cm)