Corn at Hall Carleton (Fallow Field)

From 1882 until his death in 1900 William Stott rented a house and studio at Ravenglass, on the Cumbrian coast, spending increasing amounts of time there in the last decade of his life as his health deteriorated. The landscape and solitude inspired him to produce numerous small landscape studies, mostly in pastel and watercolour, of the surrounding countryside. Instead of choosing large open vistas Stott focused on intimate pictures of woodland streams, grazing sheep and fields of corn stacks. These pastels demonstrate his interest in colour harmonies, the effect of light and his vision of beauty found in nature.