Paul Nash Prints – Standing Stones, War & Altered Landscapes
Paul Nash prints set familiar landforms beside standing stones, damaged trees and objects that interrupt ordinary space. Clear outlines and strong shadows can make an outdoor view feel unusually constructed. Explore the collection’s contrasting landscapes alongside landscape prints and abstract art, where shape takes a more independent role.
Stones casting long shadows
Avebury places upright stones and low forms across a lightly coloured ground. Dark, elongated shadows create another set of shapes beside the objects themselves. Curving marks in the surrounding fields and trees keep the scene connected to landscape while making its arrangement feel deliberately patterned.
Light over a damaged landscape
We Are Making a New World shows broken trunks rising from uneven ground beneath a low bright sun. Rounded hollows and ridges repeat across the foreground, while a dark red band closes the distance. The daylight does not remove the starkness of the bare forms, which dominate the otherwise open scene.
A route through broken ground
The Menin Road places small figures among shattered trees, standing water and sharply divided patches of earth. Large clouds open above the damaged landscape. The route is difficult to follow through the interruptions, making the relation between passage, obstruction and distance a strong part of the composition.
Related artists and collections
For other carefully structured British landscapes, explore Eric Ravilious; compare imaginative natural forms in Arthur Dove and dramatic outdoor space in Caspar David Friedrich. Further landscape art follows the ground and weather, while abstract prints offers another way to examine the shapes within these scenes.
Read more in our Eric Ravilious and British landscape art.





































































