Mark, on behalf of the Queen Elizabeth II, Platinum Jubilee Commonwealth Heritage Skills Training Programme, funded by the Hamish Ogston Foundation, is providing support to a passionate group in Barbados who are seeking to refurbish a former slave hospital, to create viable exhibition space to promote art produced within the Grantley Adams Memorial school, the local community, on the island and within the Caribbean.

Mark was presented with a beautiful piece of batik fabric produced by children at the school. This art uses wax to create patterns and designs on the material, before using a variety of dyes to colour the full image. Once the dye has set, the material is boiled to release the wax and return the fabric to its "natural state”. The image is of a traditional Chattel house that are found all over the Island, although they are being lost over the years