The picture on the front cover of this magazine forms part of my collection. It is by the wonderful English artist George Large who has lived and worked amongst us, his style is superb, brilliantly different, harsh in its tones yet so warm to its subject matter. Titled The Stone Masons, it was painted in 1992.

When foreigners started to buy holiday homes in Malta in the 1960’s they turned onto Ghorfas and Remissas now better known as Houses of Character or Farmhouses. Thus the Maltese, cross fertilized, made this trend their very own and a fashionable industry as well as a new way of life were born. This phenomenon preserved many of our delightful old villages and saved them from aluminium and string developments of Maisonettes and Garages.

F.P. Spiteri Paris (Perry)