本论文简要论述了英国水彩艺术的发展概况及文化和时代背景,水彩艺术从最早为殖民扩张服务的地形图,发展为一门独立的绘画艺术手法,成为描绘英国秀丽的自然环境、生活趣味和民族气质的适宜的艺术语言。英国水彩艺术是以本土文化(或民族文化)为积淀,深深根植于本土文化的土壤和环境中,融合于艺术家的观念和情感中,产生于艺术家更深厚的本土文化意识与情结中。诚然,水彩艺术的发展也深刻反映了一定时期英国的时代背景和社会文化。 This thesis briefly discusses the general situation of development of watercolor arts in the UK and the background of culture and times. Watercolor art developed from the earliest terrain map for colonial expansion and developed into an independent art of painting, becoming a natural environment depicting the beauty of the United Kingdom. Suitable artistic language of national temperament. British watercolor art is based on the local culture (or national culture) as the accumulation, deeply rooted in the soil and environment of local culture, the concept of integration with the artist and emotion, resulting in the artist’s deeper local cultural awareness and complex. It is true that the development of watercolor art has also profoundly reflected the background and social culture of Britain in a certain period of time.