Turner Landscape No. 4
Turner Landscape Sketches
William Turner’s sketches of his Richmond Park home serve as a reminder to me that we can observe and try to capture our surroundings regardless of methods and medium. Whether pencil, paint or camera, any casual material can be the foundation for a more complex and developed landscape composition. I choose to use the most pure of a traditional craftsperson’s palette: gold, silk, cotton and wool. My local surroundings may not be quite as spectacular as the places I experience on a travel adventure, but understanding how another artist’s eyes viewed the same place I visit fascinates me. Richmond Park is a place of beauty that deserves to be recreated in many artists' eye. I often choose the binaries of old and new, used and fresh, discarded and treasured when I stitch. Using line to dominate my composition, I want to recreate the line work of the casual observer of nature.
Turner Landscape No. 4 close up
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Turner Landscape No. 1 planning, process and detail images
