Turner in January

After I had been to the picture hooks talk yesterday I went to see the Turner in January exhibition at the National Gallery. This choice was perhaps influenced by my meeting with Brian earlier in the week. When I had been showing the work I had been doing for this project Brian felt that the environments felt very important to the images. The characters story may be helped as much as by what is contained within the backgrounds than what is in the foreground. I explained that I liked the idea of each image being a story within itself, either prior, after or in contradiction to the text. Brian felt that these types of images may work better being kept rather loose without to much detail. The artist JWM Turner was proposed as someone who created landscapes in this fashion, often areas with little happening and others full of detail but always working together to make full compositions. This exhibition showed a great deal of this type of work, pieces that did not seem as finished as the works I had previously seen by Turner. Many of them used colour to hint at objects, details often left out for the imagination to fill in. For me to create such images will require experimentation with a variety of brushes and techniques to see what I can produce digitally. I now understand why Brian had advised me to look at such work as I think this could work for my project although the work will be determined by however I draw or paint digitally myself. Some of the painting that are on display in this exhibition are shown below.