Great nature artists series: This is one of favourite Paul Nash paintings. Wittenham Clumps.

I love the subdued colours and the spiritual feeling of the painting. It is like stepping back in time.  Although perhaps not a nature painter in the 'true' sense of the word Nash fills the landscape with birds and you can almost hear the skylarks singing.

 The view from The Clumps was described by the artist Paul Nash, who first saw them in 1911, as "a beautiful legendary country haunted by old gods long forgotten"

Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: by Stephen Moss.

Great nature writers series: Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village

The village of Mark on the Somerset Levels is a watery wonderland, rich in wildlife: rooks and roe deer; sparrows and snowdrops; buzzards, badgers and butterflies; the iconic brown hare and the spectacular hummingbird hawk-moth.

As the year unfolds, Stephen Moss witnesses the landscape as it passes from deep snow to spring blossom, through the heat haze of summer to the chill winds of autumn; from the first hazel catkins to the swallows returning from Africa; from the sounds of the dawn chorus to the nocturnal mysteries of moths.

Wild Hares and Hummingbirds is both the story of a small corner of the West Country and a celebration of the natural world.