Claughton pellew biography of martin

In the autobiographical Outline, Paul Nash, a friend and contemporary at The Slade, writes of Claughton Pellew’s ‘devotional approach’ to the natural world.

Nash also acknowledges Claughton Pellew’s influence in teaching him to look – to attend properly to that which surrounded him. This looking and attending, minutely and yet not with accuracy only but with the kind of passionate intensity which accompanies a deep feeling for, even love of, the natural world, is clearly apparent in Claughton Pellew’s work. 

Born in Redruth, Cornwall, on April 11th 1890, Claughton Pellew’s father, William Pellew-Harvey, was a mining engineer and his mother, Elizabeth (née Hitchins) was an artist.

Soon after his birth the family moved to Canada. There they travelled on the Canadian Pacific Railway - on journeys, Claughton Pellew would recall, through landscapes of mountains, lakes and huge forests, before they