Paul Nash (1889-1946)

Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase 
 
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society in 1949. 

On a recent trip to Liverpool, where we were surrounded by Everton and Beatles fans, we spent several hours at the Walker Art Gallery - one of our all time favourite galleries in the UK, along with the Lady Lever Gallery. This superb British landscape oil painting by Paul Nash caught my eye. Painted in 1944, it is a view of Wittenham Clumps, two round hills outside of Oxford.There is a strange sense of space in the painting. Nash used binoculars to look at the hills from his friend's garden! This made them appear much closer than they really were. He called his fascination for this view at night his 'appetite for monstrous moons'. 

Nash's work reminded me of Welsh artist Glyn Morgan (1926-2015) whose work we have. Morgan studied at Cardiff college of art under renowned Welsh artist Ceri Richards where he was introduced to the work of Cedric Morris, who proved to be his main source of inspiration
throughout his career.  Morgan's work was also influenced by the Benton end artists, Greek
mythology, nature and the landscape. 

The painting below by Glyn Morgan is entitled Landscape with Nesting Birds and is signed and 
dated lower right. Moons, birds and trees feature in many of Morgan's paintings and the image below is not dissimilar to Nash's painting above.

click the link below for more Morgan paintings.
https://www.richardtaylorfineart.com/artist/glyn-morgan

click the link below for the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker-art-gallery