This is a portrait by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies of Margot Eates and Hartley Ramsden, both of whom wrote about Art and modern artists (Naum Gabo, Paul Nash and Piet Mondrian) while they were all living in Hampstead during the early 1940s.
I think Ramsden is related to the Ramsden family that owned Huddersfield until 1920, when Sir John Frecheville ‘Chops’ Ramsden was obliged by his straitened circumstances to sell the town to itself.
A Bad Guide 
Lucinda Douglas-Menzies… Margot Eates… Hartley Ramsden… Naum Gabo, Paul Nash and Piet Mondrian
All these names are odd, and most of them hard to pronounce, except the fourth. How did honest, transparent Paul Nash get into that company?
Well, first of all, I’m glad to see a response to this post. Thank you for taking the trouble.
Piet Mondrian started life as Pieter Mondriaan and is only “after 1906, Mondrian”. I’d be interested to know if the change had anything to do with English-speakers perplexity when confronted by double-As. Douglas-Menzies (Mengiz or Menziz?) is a really great name, that I wouldn’t mind adopting myself. It reminds me of the funny writer in the Guardian, Marina Hyde, who inexplicably took that nom-de-plume instead of using her real name, Marina Dudley-Williams. Perhaps she thought it sounded too 1930s Conservative Party. I agree that Naum Gabo is the only straightforward one. The Hungarian photographer Frank Capa, who started life in Hungary as Endre Friedmann, became Capa jointly with another war photographer, a woman called Gerta Pohorylle. Two people per name would make telephone directories half as long. Too bad they no longer exist (the directories; Capa died when he stood on a landmine during the French war in Vietnam).
But to answer your question about Paul Nash, that’s what happens when you mess with a bunch of Surrealists.