ADFAS: Turner – The Explorer
Michael Hoskins Creative Arts Centre The Armidale School, 87 Douglas Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, AustraliaArtist J M W Turner lived at a time of great social and scientific change. More than anyone else he recorded, in thousands of works of art, the transition of Britain from a rural to an industrial society. He was a fascinating character – secretive, driven, alternately penny-pinching and generous, chaotic in his private life and fiercely patriotic. He is rightly regarded as one of the world’s greatest nineteenth century painters. His likeness appears on the twenty pound note – […]