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Dora Iliopoulou - Rogan, “Kathimerini” newspaper, Athens 10-05-1987.

F. J. Featham’s watercolours at the British Council (Filikis Eterias Square) are impressively sensitive. The English artist, who has in recent years lived and worked in Crete, has immortalised with deep sensitivity and real character the impressions made upon him by the half-ruined buildings, trees, overcast skies, views of Chania, Rethymno, et al.

In each painting the transparency with which he renders the atmosphere is compelling - a transparency quite independent of the watercolour technique itself - which is here a result of the artist’s personal predilection.

He has been especially inspired by – and has rendered most evocatively - the structure of Greek trees, the subtle shades of the olive-tree, the variety of Greek vegetation – in short, the atmosphere of place.

His work is unpretentious yet substantial, and is above all endowed with the painter’s sincere inspiration and his utterly personal style.