ACE073.3 (00:10:13 - 00:21:00)
Photograph of Nash. “I want to expand yet do not see my way. I feel my work must take a definite move, but in what direction?” Assorted watercolours of flowers and plants in pots including Cactus (1928). Driftwood on beach. Landscapes. Huts near the beach. “I began to discover the significance of the so-called ‘inanimate object’.” Paintings of fences and garden buildings, etc. Nash’s Surrealist period. “Apples have had their day.” Northern Adventure (St Pancras) (1929). Two more paintings. Photograph of Nash with camera. “My reputation as a photographer is growing alarmingly…” Photograph Atlantic Voyage (1931). Other nautical subjects including Harbour and Room (1932-1936). Photographs of natural phenomena – stones, trees, etc.; Earth, Sky (1937). Dry-stone wall and fields; aerial views of land and sea. “My interest in stones began with the discovery of the Avebury megaliths...”. Photographs from the 1930s. Landscape of the Megaliths (1937), Equivalents for the Megaliths (1935), Landscape Composition (Objects in Relation) (1934), Mineral Objects (1935). Swanage. Event on the Downs (1934). “Beyond the boundary hedges, the Downs, threaded with juniper and other scrub, mounted to the spine of the great headland that arched up against the blue sky...” Fields, cliffs, sea, etc. Aerial views of chalk cliffs and stacks at Ballard Head and Harry Rocks, etc.; aerial views of landscape, Maiden Castle; early photographs of finds. Painting. More aerial views. Aerial shots of Chesil Bank, sea, etc. Trees. Stone seats. Photographs including some of Ballard Head and Harry Rocks. Landscape from a Dream (1936-1938) and other paintings.

ACE073.4 (00:21:00 - 00:29:24)
“We called it ‘monster field’, for an obvious reason...”: photographs of dead trees. Painting of similar subject. More photographs and paintings of trees. World War II bombers, fighter crews, etc. “I first became interested in the war pictorially when I realised the machines were the real protagonists…” Long-Nosed Blenheim and other wartime subjects (intercut with original film of fighter planes in action, etc.) including Battle of Britain (1941), Under the Cliff (1940), Totes Meer (Dead Sea) (1940). “I have become increasingly absorbed in the study of light, and the drama of the Great Luminaries, particularly the moon...”: paintings including The Combat and. Pyramids in the Sea. Line of fir trees, Wittenham, rocks, stone wall, shingle, lighthouse, etc. Drawing of Wittenham Clumps. One of the Landscape of the Vernal Equinox series (1944). A painting of the Clumps. Eclipse of the Sunflower (1940-1941). Solstice of the Sunflower (1945). Fiery wagon wheel rolling over grass. Credits.