It exemplifies his Impressionistic landscape style. Known for his role in the "Glasgow Boys" movement, Guthrie and his contemporaries aimed to capture such scenes of rural and working-class life with an honest, unidealized approach. The painting features a rugged coastal landscape, likely a Scottish fishing village, which is a common theme in Guthrie’s work. The foreground is dominated by drying nets stretched across wooden frames, a traditional scene depicting the life and labor of fishing communities, near the coast, which reflect his focus on everyday scenes and working life. The nets create a series of diagonal and horizontal lines, leading the viewer’s eye deeper into the composition, where the white building (possibly a church) adds height and serves as a focal point. The landscape is layered from front to back: foreground (nets), middle ground (village and buildings), and background (hills and sky). Study on email request