![]() This work was well-received when exhibited later that year. While recuperating in London, Nash worked from his sketches to produce a series of war paintings. In May 1917 he was invalided home after a non-military accident. Whenever possible, Nash made sketches of life in the trenches. In March 1917 he was sent to the Western Front Nash, who took part in the offensive at Ypres, had reached the rank of lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment by 1916. There are many nice creatures in my company and I enjoy the burst of exercise – marching, drilling all day in the open air about the pleasant parts of Regents Park and Hampstead Heath.” Every man must do his bit in this horrible business so I have given up painting. He told Gordon Bottomley: “I have joined the Artists’ London Regiment of Territorials, the old Corps which started with Rossetti, Leighton, and Millais as members in 1860. ![]() The whole damnable war is too horrible of course and I am all against killing anybody, speaking off-hand, but besides all that I believe both Jack and I might be more useful as ambulance and red cross men, and to that end we are training. He told a friend: “I am not keen to rush off and be a soldier. On the outbreak Nash considered the possibility of joining the British Army. We were on the top of a bus and she wanted them then and there.” Paul Nash was strongly attracted to Dora Carrington: He later recalled: “Carrington… was the dominating personality, I got an introduction to her and eventually won her regard by lending her my braces for a fancy-dress party. Myfanwy Piper has added: “Nash had a noteworthy sense of order and of the niceties of presentation his pictures were beautifully framed, drawings mounted, his studio precisely and decoratively tidy, and oddments which he collected were worked up into compositions.” The following year he shared an exhibition at the Dorian Leigh Gallery with his brother, John Nash. Nash had his first one-man show, of ink and wash drawings, at the Carfax Gallery in 1912. ![]() He also became a close friend of Gordon Bottomley, who took a keen interest in his career. Instead, he was influenced by the work of William Blake. Unlike some of his contemporaries at the Slade School, Nash remained untouched by the two post-impressionist exhibitions organized by Roger Fry in 19. Paul’s School and the Slade School of Art, where he met Dora Carrington. Their lives were overshadowed by their mother’s mental illness and Nash himself was greatly helped by his nurse who, with some elderly neighbors, introduced him to the universe of plants.” According to Ronald Blythe: “In 1901 the family returned to its native Buckinghamshire, where the garden of Wood Lane House at Iver Heath, and the countryside of the Chiltern Hills, with its sculptural beeches and chalky contours, were early influences on the development of the three children. His father was a successful lawyer who became the Recorder of Abingdon. Paul Nash, the elder son of William Nash and his first wife, Caroline Jackson, was born in London on 11th May 1889.
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