Nash established his artistic reputation as a printmaker at a young age, working with the progressive London Group and Camden Town Group of artists immediately before the First World War. He was an official War Artist; it was only in 1919 after the war had ended that his first prints, some of them wood engravings, were produced.

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The following year he became a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers; during the next fifteen years he produced approximately 135 wood engravings before abandoning the medium. Nash continued to make prints in other media, producing lithographs, etchings and engravings on metal, his subject matter often rural landscapes.