John William North belonged to a small group of artists who became known as the Idyllists. Martin Hardie, in his book 'Watercolour Painting in Britain' describes the landscapes of John William North as revealing 'an almost scientific search for detail in the tangled luxuriance of orchard and copse.' North was very much interested in atmosphere and 'his wish to make drawings tingle and shimmer with light led him to paint multitudinous details melting together, with spots and particles of colour.'
