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paul Nash was originally intended for a career in the navy,

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Nash was the son of a successful barrister, William Harry Nash, and his wife Caroline Maude, the daughter of a Captain in the Royal Navy.

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Nash's anger was a great creative stimulus which led him to produce up to a dozen drawings a day.

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Early in 1918, Nash began working in oils for the first time. The first oil painting he made was The Mule Track

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After the war Nash continued to focus on landscape painting, originally in a formalized, decorative style

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The artist died on July 11, 1946 in Boscombe, United Kingdom and was survived by his brother the painter John Nash.

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In 1914, the 25 year old Nash enlisted in the British Army and was sent to the Western Front early in 1917. A few months into to his tour he was sent back to London to recover from a broken rib, during his absence the majority of his unit was killed.

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During both the First and Second World Wars Paul Nash was an official war artist. A war artist is someone paid by the government to paint or draw events that were happening in the war

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He collaged photographs of sticks and other bits of nature.

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Born in London in 1889, he is most famous for his landscape paintings, which look mysterious and sometimes slightly spooky.