Works by David Nash

David Nash

Sliced Egg XII

Yew
2016
21 x 11 x 12 cm (8,25 x 4,25 x 4,75 po)
$ 4,500.00 CAD not framed

David Nash

Sheaf of Wedges

Lime wood
2003
48 x 35,5 x 28 cm (19 x 14 x 11 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Red Range

Sequoia wood
2013
53 x 35 x 13 cm (20,75 x 13,75 x 5 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Small Yew Stack

Yew
2014
28 x 19 x 16 cm (11 x 7,5 x 6,25 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Cut Through Panel

Sequoia Wood
2013
85 x 21 x 7 cm (33,5 x 8,25 x 2,75 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Cut through block

Wood on wood
2014
36 x 8,5 x 2,8 cm (14,25 x 3,25 x 1 po)
$ 2,800.00 CAD not framed

David Nash

Manzanita Column II

Manzanita Wood
2014
33 x 9 x 10 cm (13 x 3,5 x 4 po)
$ 3,500.00 CAD not framed

David Nash

Black & Red

Wood on wood
2013
27,5 x 8 x 3 cm ch. (10,75 x 3,25 x 1,25 po each)
$ 2,750.00 CAD not framed

David Nash

Small Beach Range

Wood on wood
1992
23 x 26 x 12 cm (9 x 10,25 x 4,75 po)
$ 9,100.00 CAD not framed

David Nash

Red Column

Bronze
2014
38 x 16 x 15 cm (15 x 6,25 x 6 po)

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David Nash

Yellow Stack

Stencil pastel on paper
2016
102 x 67 cm (40,25 x 26,5 po)

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David Nash

Red Stack

Stencil pastel on paper
2020
102 x 67 cm (40 x 26 1/2 po)
$ 4,000.00 CAD not framed

David Nash

Blue Stack II

Stencil pastel on paper
2020
102 x 67 cm (40 x 26,5 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Autumn I

Soft pastel on paper
2014
102 x 67 cm (40 x 26,5 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Red Column, Black Column

Stencil pastel on paper
2014
55,5 x 74 cm (21,75 x 29,25 po)
$ 4,700.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Cut Corners Red and Black

Stencil pastel on paper
2011
101,5 x 67 cm (40 x 26,5 po)
$ 4,900.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Red Holed Column

Stencil pastel on paper
2018
103 x 66 cm (40,5 x 26 po)
$ 5,500.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Sliced Red Egg

Stencil pastel on paper
2022
76 x 57 cm (29,92 x 22,44 in)
$ 3,800.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Red Rib Column

Stencil pastel on paper
2017
76 x 57 cm (30 x 22,5 po)
$ 4,400.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Cut Through Column

Stencil pastel on paper
2017
76 x 57 cm (30 x 22,5 po)
$ 4,900.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Stack

Soft pastel on paper
2014
76 x 56,5 cm (30 x 22,25 po)
$ 12,000.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Tree in May 1

Soft pastel on paper
2019
76 x 56 cm (29,92 x 22,05 in)
Price available on request

David Nash

Crack and Wrap Columns

Charcoal on paper
2005
114 x 84 cm (44,75 x 33 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Red Wall

Stencil pastel on paper
2019
66,5 x 102 cm (26 x 40 po)
$ 5,000.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Red Dome

Pigments on paper
2022
57 x 76 cm (22,5 x 30 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Red Dome

Soft pastel on paper
2013
112 x 152 cm (44 x 59,75 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Red and Black Dome

Stencil pastel on paper
2011
67 x 101,5 cm (26,5 x 40 po)
$ 10,000.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Red Bush 2

Charcoal and soft pastel on paper
2015
56 x 76 cm (22 x 30 po)
$ 12,000.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Red and Black

Stencil pastel on paper
2009
66,5 x 101,5 cm (26,25 x 40 po)
$ 6,400.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Oak Leaves in May 2

Stencil pastel on paper
2019
66 x 51,5 cm (26 x 20,25 po)
$ 4,400.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Oak Leaves in May 1

Stencil pastel on paper
2019
56 x 76 cm (22 x 30 po)
$ 4,400.00 CAD framed

David Nash

May

Stencil pastel on paper
2020
102 x 67 cm (40 x 26,5 po)
$ 5,500.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Magenta

Soft pastel on paper
2017
74 x 102 cm (29 x 40 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Ash Dome Four Seasons

Stencil pastel on paper
2022
90 x 102 cm (35,43 x 40,16 in)
$ 5,500.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Red Tree 2

Soft pastel on paper
2018
57 x 76 cm (22,5 x 30 po)
Price available on request

David Nash

Blue Shade

Stencil pastel on paper
2019
57 x 76 cm (22,5 x 30 po)
$ 4,100.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Overlap Column

Stencil pastel on paper
2016
76 x 56 cm (30 x 22 po)
$ 3,500.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Habitat

Stencil pastel on paper
2013
76 x 67 cm (30 x 26,5 po)
$ 3,500.00 CAD framed

David Nash

Black Crossed Red Egg

Stencil pastel on paper
2003
76,5 x 57 cm (30 x 22,5 po)
$ 3,500.00 CAD framed

About the artist

David Nash

David Nash

 

David Nash was born at Esher, Surrey, and raised with his older brother Chris in Weybridge, Surrey where they both attended preparatory school. He spent all his childhood holidays in Ffestiniog, Wales David helped clear and replant a nearby forest that his father owned, and also worked for the Commercial Forestry Group. He learned about wood of many kinds and learned he hated planting trees in rows.

He attended Brighton College from 1959 to 1963, then Kingston College of Art from 1963 to 1967 and the Chelsea School of Art as a postgraduate from 1969 to 1970. Nash was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1999. In 2004, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire. A significant exhibition of his work is displayed in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for a period in 2010/11. Kew Gardens currently has a working exhibition, launched in June 2012. David Nash is working on site in a 'wood quarry', his first for 10 years, to create new works at Kew.

David Nash is known for works in wood and shaping living trees. His large wood sculptures are sometimes carved or partially burned to produce blackening. His main tools for these sculptures are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood and a blowtorch to char the wood.

Nash also makes land art, of which the best known is Wooden Boulder, begun in 1978. This work involves the journey of a large wooden sphere from a Welsh mountainside to the Atlantic Ocean. Wooden Boulder is a large wooden sphere carved by Nash in the North Wales landscape and left there to weather.[3] Over the years, the boulder has slipped, rolled and sometime been pushed through the landscape following the course of streams and rivers until finally it was last seen in the estuary of the river Dwyryd. It was thought to have been washed out to sea but, after being missing for over five years, the boulder reappeared in June 2009[citation needed]. Indications are that it had been buried in sand in the estuary. The sculptor had no idea of its location, and enjoys the notion that wood which grew out of the land will finally return to it.

Nash also makes sculptures which stay in the landscape. For example, Ash Dome is a ring of ash trees he planted in 1977 and trained to form a domed shape. The dome is sited at a secret location somewhere in Snowdonia and whenever it's filmed, crews are taken there by a circuitous route to guard its security.

In the late 1980s, Nash worked at the Djerassi resident artist program, near Woodside, California, where he used Redwood and Madrone wood for his sculptures. Nash has worked with schools, university groups, and teachers throughout his career. He has created a varied body of work in which the relationship between man and nature is a central theme. His artistic ethos has been one of direct, physical involvement with his chosen material – wood – and the landscape.

Since 1967, his sculpture has formed two distinctive groupings; sculptures which connect with the outside, the landscape of making and placements, and works which are presented inside, within and in relation to, architectural environments. The inorganic, non-allusive sculptures that Nash makes using unseasoned wood are based on the universal geometry of the cube, the sphere and the pyramid. He uses the directions of mark-making to his favoured forms: vertical for the cube, horizontal for the sphere, and diagonal for the pyramid. Although the innate character of the material is taken into account, and allowed to affect the outcome, he never allows it to dictate the sculpture's final identity.

Nash takes a different approach to carving. Rather than chisels and abrasives, he uses chain saws and a blowtorch.

 

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