AN ARTIST’S ground-breaking inter-war work which transformed the genre of British landscape painting will feature in a new exhibition at York Art Gallery.

Paul Nash’s collection will reflect the violent upheaval of the pastoral and romantic landscape caused by the First World War.

In this unique exhibition, curated by John Stezaker, he considers how Nash and his contemporaries portrayed an estranged sense of unreality focused on the representation of the everyday world. Stezaker explores this new lease of life for landscape painting in the post war period, highlighting the profound influence Nash has exerted over artists throughout the twentieth century and still today.

John said: “Paul Nash’s work represents a watershed in British landscape painting. His First World War paintings are probably his most famous works. But it was in the immediate aftermath of the war, when Nash was working in Dymchurch, that a much more disturbing spatial order emerged. The exhibition runs from today to April 15, 2018.