Paul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer, and designer of applied art. He was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. The landscape paintings he produced during World War 1 are among the most iconic images of the conflict. After the war Nash continued to focus on landscape painting. Intially the works could be descibed as decorative and formal. However, throughout the 1930s his work became increasingly abstract and surreal. In these paintings he often placed everyday objects into a landscape to give them a new identity and symbolism. The elder brother of John Nash, he studied at the Slade School and went on to work with Roger Fry at the Omega Workshops. Nash was appointed an Official War Artist in 1917 having served with the Artist’s Rifles since 1914. After the war he taught at Oxford and The Royal College of Art and was an official war artist again in World War II. During World War 11, he painted a number of landscapes that have become some of the best know works of the period.