Arborealists & Guests featuring Paul Nash in an exhibition of trees in contemporary art, curated by Blaze Cyan, Tim Craven and introducing the curator and artist Paul Newman.
Visitors were also able to view Nash’s painting ‘Pond in the Fields’ (1927) which has been shown in public on only four previous occasions: Leicester Gallery in 1928, Venice in 1938, the National Gallery in 1940 and the Tate Gallery in 1948. Nash was official artist for both world wars and known particularly for his powerful mudscapes of Passchendaele. Trees have been a feature of his work throughout his life, from his early watercolours of a line of pollarded elms in his family garden in Buckinghamshire to the ragged stumps in his war commissions, and in later paintings of Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire.
New members Claire Cansick, Lara Cobden and Natasha Lien exhibited here for the first time with founder members including Howard Phipps, Jacqui Wedlake-Hatton, Graham Arnold, Abi Kremer, Fiona Hingston, Philippa Beale, Fiona McIntyre and Lesley Slight.
https://www.blackswanarts.org.uk/whats-on/archives/exhibition-archives-2018/arborealists/
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