The paintings of John Nash exert a subtle fascination. Start looking, and you will notice more. Rhythms pulse across his compositions. Strange geometries are revealed by the simplification of ...

Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews sit pretty alongside Greenham Common barbed wire in this instructive if not quite groundbreaking roam around the contested land and landscapes of Britain.

It’s summer, 1918, and two brothers, both artists, are working cheek by jowl in a makeshift studio inside an old herb-drying shed near the Buckinghamshire village of Chalfont St Peter. The job in hand ...

In the first of a new series examining landscape paintings, we look at the story behind Nash’s charming and amusing countryside scene. By Michael Prodger There is little evidence in Harvesting, a ...