The two powerful working horses pulling the plough are front and centre on this impressive oil painting. This work would date from a period before Knighton-Hammond headed off to the Continent for 10 years in 1922. The Ploughing picture is, therefore, still in a more traditional style before he was influenced by the light and colours of Italy and France. The horses and the attending farmer create movement. To give recession in the composition the artist uses horizontal planes starting with the foreground ploughed field through to the grass in the adjacent field, trees and hedges and the hills in the background. There is a rhythmic division between land and sky. The cloud study interrupts the light from the ever-changing effects of the sky which we are well aware Knighton-Hammond enjoyed painting.