This is a scene that Knighton-Hammond could not have passed by without getting his easel and paints out – too good an opportunity to have missed! The Gypsy Encampment on the side of the road consists of a covered wagon and a caravan. Figures are mulling around and the grazing horse is depicted with clever foreshortening. In the foreground the winding road takes the spectator’s eye into the picture where further depth is given to the background by the use of successive planes of colour through to the atmospheric blue on the horizon and into the powerful, dramatic sky all created amid a profusion of constructive brushstrokes. In conjunction with this variety of brushstrokes and texture of thick, impasto paint, Knighton-Hammond adopted a greater intensity in his colours which are rich in harmonious modulations. He has focused on the scintillating movement of sunshine across the landscape creating a feeling of atmosphere. This powerful composition presumes, indeed solicits, the attention of the spectator as one’s eye is guided around this spectacular art work. Probably painted in the 1930s this picture is Knighton-Hammond at his best – simply brilliant with all the characteristics of French pleinairism and Impressionism. There is a feeling of life in the paint and in the painting.