John Nash - The Cornfield

First of all, ten thousand apologies for the recent lack of updates here as I have been tied up with things as far from art, the blog and the mead as it's possible to be over the last couple of weeks but normal service should be resumed at the weekend.

Secondly, as promised and because fields are being harvested now, here is John Nash's more famous cornfield.

It's the not the best quality image, but they enforce copyright quite strictly on this one and its hard to find any reproductions at all - so enjoy it while it lasts as it may have to come down again! Nash is firmly of the generation of painters that was trying to finding England again in the aftermath of the Great War, and he found it in the downland and arable farmland of Southern England. He lacked his brother's intensity but there is a simple charm in all his work - its the sort of art you could live with on a day to day basis very easily and the older I get the more I appreciate that as a quality in art.

The original, as with so many of this country's finest, can be found at the Tate.