An Old Kent Road Watercolor
c. 2006 Michael St.Mark

Through the car windscreen on another rain-lashed traffic-choked evening heading N. on the Old Kent Road, SE London.
We believe the first use of through-rain drops on a windscreen/window -to the external subject within art.

*Update 2018; the concept now so ubiquitous in use as to be almost a sub-genre within photography.

Film-maker Abbas Kiarostami copied the idea the following year to make his Rain Series ( 2007 ); claims ” its an idea I’ve had for a long time”. Well….

That must be why it took him a long time to simply point-and-shoot through his own car windscreen on a rainy day – M. St.M

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links to other works;

A Newton Stewart Watercolor
A Moffat Watercolor
Bank Holiday Driptych
Scottish Water plumber callout

15 years on; ( 2021 ) the effect we pioneered still being used by the BBC weather service to indicate unsettled & wet forecasts

• 6 years on, in 2012 a further London Dada inventive step; that of using subjects with opened umbrellas walking across the outside scene as the backdrop to the droplet / rivulet covered glass.
  Again, this was immediately taken up ( copied ) and used ( by C4 TV weather )
  Story here; https://londondada.art/2012/05/08/work-601-driptych-uk-bank-holiday-special-13646320/