Januarys artwork for several.co is a photograph by Paul Nash. Exhibit C is a photograph by the great British painter and Surrealist Paul Nash. Known for his severe judgements on War, Nash was of course also as concerned with Peace, and the tense harmony of Nature. This photograph was taken in 1946. Although the location is not officially identified and has been listed as Portland, it seems more probable that this was taken in Avebury. Nash was very interested in what has become known as the Spirit of Place or the peculiar character of a specific area, as influenced by multifarious forces, be they historic, physic or metaphysic. The Avebury stone circles and avenues are part a complex of Neolithic ritual sites, that also includes Stonehenge and Silbury Hill. Nash and his wife Margaret (who had given him his camera) had visited Avebury ten years previously and had found the place to be ruinously unkempt. In something of a visual metaphor for post-war optimism, their return found the previously fallen stones being exhumed and resurrected, and this is what this image most likely shows. Unlike much of Nashs photographic work from this period, this image is less concerned with form and line than subject, and displays much of the curious mystery of his very best work. John Marchant, Brighton January 2015
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:08:23 +0000
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