Marina Alta Arts Society

THE MARINA Alta Arts Society will be holding their next presentation on

in Teulada. Commencing at 10:00 at the Salones Canor, the next presentation will be ‘Late Turner’ by Nicola Moorby.

British artist J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) was one of the greatest artists Britain has ever produced. He painted unforgettable watercolours and was revered for his masterly use of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes. These are especially highly regarded. Turner is often thought of as the great artistic traveller of his age, wandering around Britain and Europe in search of inspiring landscape scenery. Yet one of his most enduring subjects was found on his doorstep in his native city of London. ‘The Thames’ became one of Turner’s most frequently depicted subjects and by the end of his life had inspired some of his most innovative and celebrated works.

This presentation takes a fresh look at Turner’s late works. It sheds new light on his life and art, challenging the myths, assumptions and interpretations that have grown around his later work. It reveals a painter as distinguished by the broad scope of his knowledge and imagination as he was by his radical and exploratory techniques, processes and use of materials.

A curator at Tate Britain, with extensive experience of lectur- ing to a wide variety of audiences. Nicola Moorby is a freelance art historian specialising in British art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She studied at the University of York and Birkbeck College, London, and formerly worked at Tate Britain as a curator and researcher. She has curated a number of exhibitions and published widely on J.M.W. Turner, including for the current on-line updated catalogue of the Turner Bequest, and is co-editor and author of ‘How to Paint Like Turner’ (Tate Publishing 2010). In addition to Turner she has published on Walter Richard Sickert and is co-author of the Tate’s catalogue of works by the Camden Town Group.

This presentation is sponsored by Blevins Franks, and as usual wine and soft drinks will be offered after the presentation to allow socialising with the speakers and the committee.

Directions to the venue are on the website www.marinaaltaarts.com.