This 1962 study depicts the farmland surrounding Bottengoms, John Nash’s home in the village of Wormingford, Essex. Nash captured the Essex countryside as early as 1922, drawn to what he called the ‘Suffolk-Essex Highlands’. From 1929 he visited regularly, staying in rented cottages during the summer and he later purchased Bottengoms with his wife Christine in the 1940s. This move cemented a remarkable relationship with this landscape that would last for the rest of his life. The present work is a study for the oil painting Melted Snow, Wormingford of the same year, held in the Southend Museum Services Collection.

We are very grateful to Andrew Lambirth for his assistaince in preparing this catalogue entry.