Thomas Saunders Nash: the everyday and the mystical

In the years before the First World War, the Slade School of Art in London found they had attracted a golden generation of students – it was what the school's professor of fine art, Henry Tonks, called their last 'crisis of brilliance'. Along with Christopher Nevinson, David Bomberg, Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler, Thomas Saunders Nash was already recognised as a highly gifted and original…