Paul Nash (1889-1946) was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art. Nash was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. He played a key role in the development of Modernism in English art.

This work It is closely associated with his late-career obsession with the sun as a symbolic force, often linked to the mythic imagery of sunflowers and the cycles of nature in his final years.