During the 1920s and 1930s the Cotswolds increasingly became a 'landscape of the mind' for artists and tourists. Gilbert Spencer painted this canvas in London. He said it 'was entirely imaginary and no studies or drawings were made from nature for it. This would explain a number of things that are not Cotswold in character. I have often used agricultural settings... In this one, as the result of many visits to the Cotswolds...and my experiences from painting landscapes there, I decided to use the colour and stone of the Cotswolds'.