Bidspirit auction | N. T. Hepworth (British, 20th

N. T. Hepworth (British, 20th Century), A Country Churchyard Landscape, Watercolor on Paper, 1978 - This original watercolor painting on paper depicts a traditional English pastoral scene featuring a stone country church set within a churchyard with several visible headstones. The composition leads the eye along a winding path toward the building, with a backdrop of rolling hills under a sky filled with large cumulus clouds. The work is executed in a representational style typical of 20th-century British landscape painting, utilising a palette of greens, ochres, and muted blues. In the lower left corner, the artwork is signed in dark paint N T HEPWORTH followed by the date 78. The painting is housed in a contemporary light-toned wood-effect frame with a neutral cream mount under glass. Two adhesive labels are present on the glass: a white square sticker printed with the number 4 in the upper right and an orange rectangular sticker printed with the number 142 in the lower right.