Nash john artist biography
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Biography
John Northcote Nash, the son of a barrister and younger brother of the war artist Paul Nash (1889-1946) was born at Ghuznee Lodge, in Kensington, London in 1893. In 1901 his family returned to Buckinghamshire, where the garden of Wood Lane House at Iver Heath and the countryside of the Chiltern Hills greatly influenced him.
Nash john artist biography
Educated at Wellington College, John started work as a trainee journalist but his life changed when his brother, who had enrolled at the Slade, brought home two fellow students, Claughton Pellew and Dora Carrington, who inspired him to become an artist.
Dora also introduced him to his future wife Christine Kuhlensthal (1895-1976), a talented artist who trained at the Slade with Paul Nash in the years immediately preceding World War One. They married in 1918.
Nash did not receive any formal training, following his brother’s advice that it would ruin his unique vision of landscape.
It would be unfair however to describe John Nash as an amateur arti