John Nash was born in London in 1893 and died in Wormingford, Essex in 1977. He worked as an Oil painter, watercolourist and wood engraver.
He received no formal training as a painter but was encouraged to take it up by his brother Paul. He began painting in oil but soon abandoned it for watercolour and wood engraving. He belonged, along with Edward Bawden, David Jones, John Piper and Eric Ravilious, to the English school of romantic landscape painters. Of all these artists his paintings are the purest as watercolours, he never experimented with techniques unnatural to the medium and he developed his own style based on the application of clean colour to the paper. He had a love of wild flowers and old English garden plants and illustrated books and portfolios of them.
His work is in many national galleries including the Tate Gallery.
