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Nash was a great student of the ancient landscape of the southern
and western Britain and author of The Shell Guide to Dorset.
Here he fuses a romantic, even primitive, vision with a powerful sense
of modernity. Geometrical objects which are abstract 'equivalents'
for the famous megaliths at Avebury in Wiltshire are placed in a recognisable
landscape.
Nash took many photographs at Avebury. He sensed the 'primal magic'
of the stones, 'hallowed remains of an almost unknown civilisation'.
He completed this painting in the same year the work by Thomas Guest
hanging alongside it was re-discovered.
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