The shepherds are corralling their sheep into the pens set in the sloping field. This picture would have been painted at speed by Knighton-Hammond. There is very little, if any, under-drawing so the brush would have been used to paint directly in watercolour. This demonstrates the artist’s total confidence in application which is delightfully free and sketchy but so sure in drawing. Knighton-Hammond has used a very limited palette restricting himself primarily to blues and greens. The figures and sheep have been sketched in with an almost shorthand creating vitality, spontaneity and movement. The landscape is created from spirited brushstrokes with a degree of elegance all of which powerfully engages the spectator’s interest.