The flat, simplified composition is probably derived from Japanese prints. The paintings produced by Innes and John in Wales over the next three years represent a unique, Welsh contribution to British post-Impressionism. Innes studied at Carmarthen School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, where he was taught by Philip Wilson Steer(1860–1942). His first visit to France in 1908 transformed his awareness of colour. Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1909, he worked at a furious pace. His illness did not prevent Innes, however, from leading an itinerant, bohemian existence. He travelled continually, painting most frequently in Wales and at Collioure, the French coastal town associated with the Fauves Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and André Derain (1880–1954). Innes died in August 1914, aged 27. John later wrote ‘tortured by the remorseless disease … he managed by heroic effort to make a name for himself as one of the foremost figures of his time in the art of landscape painting’