His early love of the classics and an enduring spirit of adventure were rekindled in Greece. He formed a great attachment to a young Greek man and, over the next few years, spent much of his time in Greece, painting the villages, scenery and communal life of the countryside. These paintings were exhibited in the 1960's at the Leicester Gallery, London.     In the 1950's he was commissioned to underake the marble cladding of the interior brick walls of the nave of Westminster Cathedral. This work took him to Italy, Greece and the Middle East looking for suitable materials.

Aelred Bartlett (1918 - 2004) Aelred Bartlett was born in London in 1918. He studied at the Slade School of Art and orked for a time teaching at the Slade and painting scenery for the Old Vic Theatre Company. His artistic career was interrupted by the Second World War during which he served in the Intelligence Corps in Africa, Italy and Austria. In the straightened circumstances after the war he was compelled to return to the family business (in church restoration and embellishment) in order to look after his own young family. He also made many paintings of his young Greek friend, and these form the nucleus of the present exhibition at Adonis Art. Bartlett eventually completed the marble cladding of the nave of Westminster Cathedral when, in the 1990's, he discovered a rich blue Brazilian marble, that was suitable. He died in 2004.