This sketch of Mary, the artist’s daughter knitting or doing some other craft would have been executed at speed. For Knighton-Hammond drawing was a constant study and consideration and one gets the sense it was a source of creative joy. It was likely that Mary was at home relaxing and going about her task when her father, who always had a sketchbook about his person, set out producing this drawing and with a few deft strokes of the chalk set her in a defined and convincing pictorial space. Knighton-Hammond’s drawing practice was speedy and economical in development. With red chalk one could achieve a softness of stroke which reflected a synthesis between line, light and shadow. It is clear the artist was wholly immersed in his art – simultaneously, spontaneous and inventive.