Location: Somerset, UK
Subject: Cloud Study
Medium: Watercolour
Date: 1940s
Signature: Knighton-Hammond
Dimensions: 28 cm x 38 cm
In this Somerset landscape, Knighton-Hammond positioned himself with large trees front and centre. The field in the foreground is painted in green – the local colour which gradually progresses into blue – the atmospheric colour in the background. The graduation of colour creates the depth to the composition. The main focus of the artist’s attention would have been the clouds. The quick brushwork rapidly notates the formation and movement of the clouds against the blue sky.