Autumn invites us to pause and notice changes in the natural world around us. No matter where you are in the world or what seasons you’re passing through, I hope you enjoy this gallery of fall landscapes that highlight some of the best of what watercolor has to offer.
In 1864 Boyce met Isaac Lowthian Bell, an ironmaster who built an industrial empire in County Durham in northeastern England. Bell bought drawings from Boyce and encouraged the artist to look for the peculiar beauties of a landscape that was being changed by industrialization. Boyce stayed with Bell several times and painted in the vicinity. This compelling composition includes a colliery and pit village, probably within the Durham coalfield. Distant mining operations are carefully described but presented within a landscape that seems serene and largely unaffected. In the foreground, boys pick berries while a woman and dog relax on the grass. Russets, greens, and purple-browns weave a visual tapestry from bands of autumnal vegetation and partly overgrown slag heaps. Boyce’s early training as an architect allowed him to accurately describe the colliery while his Pre-Raphaelite sensibility encouraged him to celebrate the surrounding natural beauty.
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