Location: Misterton, Somerset, UK
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Watercolour
Date: 1940s
Signature: Knighton-Hammond
Dimensions: 56 cm x 76 cm
This watercolour, painted with great fluidity, is distinguished in technique by previously unparalleled freedom of handling. With masses of colour, which when looked into at close quarters seem to resolve themselves into a chaos of pigments, but in which every stroke has been applied with an unerring sense of total effect at some distance. The cattle are just meandering or lying down with the one on the left appearing to look inquisitively at the artist at work. The trees are synonymous with Druids Hill, so called because local legend has it, that it was where Druids held their services.