"For other artists, it is Turner’s application of paint that makes his work so modern.
“He was molding the paint, kneading it onto a flat surface; it was a bodily experience,” the painter Frank Bowling said at his studio in South London, where he was at work on a suite of paintings in a hot palette of crimson, mauve and yellow — not unlike Turner’s own. Born in British Guiana in 1934, he moved to London in 1953 and studied art for several years. Visiting the Tate Gallery (which is now home to Tate Britain), he was drawn to British Romantic painters like Constable and Turner."
August 1, 2025