John Nash, painted his view of the cornfield towards the end of the First World War and a century after Constable painted his. Nash’s image lacks any people or structures in stark contrast to his paintings of the war.
The stooks of corn remind us that people have been here recently. My mother who was born 10 years later remembered stooks just as they were disappearing from the British landscape.
Now however the countryside is thoroughly mechanised and farming is truly industrial. I put the farm sheds in to illustrate what Nash could have seen today.
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