I was looking at Turner, as i really like the way he uses colour and light. His paintings are atmospheric and full of feeling.

Looking at his earliest paintings, even as a child aged as young as 12, he was extremely talented.

He worked as a tranee draftsman and had a keen interested in architecture but he was encouraged to continue painting.

He made his first bit of mony from watercolours and prints:

 

The Rising Squall - Hot Wells from St Vincent's Rock, Bristol
exhibited 1793

MediumWatercolour, pen and ink and graphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 359 x 410 mm

Collection

Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery

Turner Worldwide

Reference

TW0056

Wilton 18

Fisherman At Sea, First Oil Colour , Exhibited 1796


He was inspired by Claude Lorrain’s classical seaports and the Greek and Roman literature



Turner travelled, sketched and then painted. He travelled to Holland and to see the battlefield of waterloo and the Rineland.



The field of Waterloo, Exhibited 1818

Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhon Coming On ('The Slave Ship')

Date exhibited 1840

Medium:Oil paint on canvas

Dimensionssupport: 908 x 1226 mm

Collection

Henry Lillie Pierce Fund; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

This picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1840. He paired it with the following extract from his unfinished and unpublished poem "Fallacies of Hope" (1812):

"Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay;

Yon angry setting sun and fierce-edged clouds

Declare the Typhon's coming.

Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboard

The dead and dying - ne'er heed their chains

Hope, Hope, fallacious Hope!

Where is thy market now?"