This street scene in Shere near Guildford in Surrey focuses on St James’ Church at the end of the road. The use of watercolour has an instinctive feeling for light, colour and tone producing a work of luminosity and clarity. The absence of ‘drawn’ outlines, creates a light-saturated scene with figures of great spontaneity and their motion captured as a frozen moment in time. Both the architecture, with its precise linear perspective, and the figures show great freedom yet great accuracy. Executed on the spot, the work possesses freshness and immediacy. The foliage of the various trees in greens and browns is rich in form and colour.