Pots Meer - Tribute to Paul Nash

Have you ever started to look up one thing in a book or on the web and eventually found yourself looking either at something that has nothing at all in common with where you started, or else back at exactly where you started?

Yesterday I had a sudden urge to look up an old BBC2 Trade Test Transmission on the 1969 Round Britain Powerboat Race, as you do. I found it on YouTube along with some I didn't remember "The Homemade Motorcar" for one, and lots of others that I did, including one about making the stained glass for Paddy's Wigwam. There was also one I couldn't find on building Coventry Cathedral but that reminded me that some of the glass there was by John Piper, and I had a book to read on him and various other war artists of his era, "A Crisis of Brilliance" Amongst those other artists was Paul Nash, whose work I've always found very powerful. One of his most famous paintings was "Totes Meer"

Still with me? Now over the Winter we've had a whole lot of patio pots that have survived many much worse years crack and break. So today I was in the garden finding new homes for ten displaced plants, and in disposing of this one pot the pieces reminded me of one of his peace time seascapes.

Which is how I end up giving this blip such a Pseud's Corner title