Across the country, art galleries and museums are celebrating the 250th birthday of one of Britain’s greatest painters, Joseph Mallord William Turner.
The Williamson holds a small but impressive collection of Turner watercolours, and will be bringing four onto public display. They show how he earned the moniker “Master Of Light”, and his mastery of watercolour as a medium.
These will be displayed in Gallery 4 as an intervention within Philip Wilson Steer: In Conversation. Turner was one of Steer’s idols, and this display is intended to encourage conversation and questioning around what it means to build on the style and ingenuity of Britain’s greatest landscape painter.