Paul Nash

The Road Ahead

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. Before the advent of motorways in the UK (first section of…

7 years ago

It’s December

It's December and the full onslaught of the cultural waterboarding of commercial Christmas is about to roll out. Before it…

7 years ago

Richard Aldington and Paul Nash: Images of War

Some authors are blessed with illustrators who enhance their work with the distinction of their own. So it was in…

7 years ago

Forgetfulness

Forgetfulness The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking…

7 years ago

My gaze is clear as a sunflower

Paul Nash's fascination with aerial bombardment led him to an ecstatic vision of “the sky blossoming with floating flowers”. This,…

7 years ago

Under the Radar: The Hedge Hoppers and the Hardest Day

After early mist the morning of Sunday August 18 1940 was bright with clear skies. It came to be known…

7 years ago

Tweet Tweet

Tweet Tweet There’s a blackbird in my mango tree and I think of Marley and singing songs of freedom I…

7 years ago

A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street

Here again - for the summer solstice - are those Wittenham Clumps. By the early 1940s Nash’s was in declining…

7 years ago

To look at any thing

"My boy you should go in for nature." Sir William Richmond's advice to Paul Nash on reviewing some of his…

7 years ago

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Did you have a special place as a child? Perhaps somewhere secret and magical? A corner of a city park,…

7 years ago

Blackbird

Blackbirds are notorious for being able to mimic the sounds they hear as they hop about the celestial chimney pots…

8 years ago

Moonlight

Moonlight What time the meanest brick and stone Take on a beauty not their own, And past the flaw of…

8 years ago

A Wartime Education

Britain declared war on Germany just after U.A. Fanthorpe's birthday in 1939. She was ten. Living in Kent she was…

8 years ago

Song of the Dark Ages

Song of the Dark Ages We digged our trenches on the down    Beside old barrows, and the wet White…

8 years ago

In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)

In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men,…

8 years ago