If you want to really understand something place yourself in the care of a passionate expert.
Christopher Baines is just such a person. He unlocks the magic of Whittenham Clumps and artist Paul Nash’s constant fascination with this special landscape.
On September 1st cousin Wendy and I joined Christopher Baines on a special walk around the Whittenham Clumps, stopping to examine particular points of view where Nash took the landscape and made it his own.
Before we set of Christopher gave a illustrated talk, full of insight and anecdote; ideas that made the walk so very special. I was busily scribbling Christopher's words in my book as his talk continued.
It was in September when the Nash family visited the Wittenham Clumps on holidays before the First World War. Two months from this September 2018, we will mark the 100thanniversary of the end of that conflict. A war that was, so tellingly, portrayed in painting, by Paul Nash.
BIG THANKS to Christopher Baines and his collaborator and co-guide artist Anna Dillon www.annadillon.com/Their Nash-Clumps website https://www.nashclumps.orgis a constant visual delight
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