Find out more about the great landscape
artist J.M.W. Turner and his time in Twickenham this April.
Tuesday, 6th April, 7pm
‘Turner’s House of Art: Turner at Petworth’ with Andrew Loukes
Chaired by Ricky Pound
From 1827, the year after he sold
Sandycombe Lodge, J.M.W. Turner visited Petworth House in West Sussex every
year for the next decade. There remain 20 paintings by Turner at Petworth,
which is the largest collection of his oils outside Tate Britain. This talk
explores the artist’s relationship with one of his favourite places, described
by Turner’s contemporary John Constable as “that house of art”.
Andrew
Loukes has worked with public art collections for 30 years. He was the House
and Collections Manager at Petworth House (the most important art collection in
the care of the National Trust) for 11 years and previously was a curator at
Manchester Art Gallery and Tate Britain. He has curated exhibitions on Blake,
Constable and seven on Turner, including the recent inaugural exhibition ‘Turner
and the Thames: Five Paintings’ at Turner’s House in 2020. Andrew is also a
former trustee of the Turner’s House Trust. He is now Consultant Curator of the
Egremont Collection at Petworth.
Tuesday
13th April, 7pm ‘From the Sublime to the Ridiculous - Turner’s sense
of scale’ with Franny Moyle
Chaired
by Clare Pardy
Franny
Moyle looks at Turner’s interest in scale, his ‘all seeing eye’, and how this
relates to his world view. Taking a number of paintings executed during the
‘Sandycombe Years’ she will invite those joining the talk to look again at
Turner’s work, to consider how he uses scale to express sublime beauty, what
there is to discover in looking closely at the detail of his work, and how this
may relate to his own spiritual beliefs.
Franny
Moyle is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster whose biography of Turner, The
Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of JMW Turner was published in 2016
to critical acclaim. She is a trustee of the Turner’s House Trust.
Tuesday
20th April, 7pm ‘Turner and the ‘Matchless Vale of Thames’’ with
Catherine Parry-Wingfield.
Chaired
by Lucinda MacPherson
For
the great landscape painter J.M.W. Turner, the river Thames provided him with a
huge source of inspiration, from his childhood in the early 1780s to the end of
his life in 1851. He was particularly
enthralled by the Arcadian stretch of the river as it winds past Richmond and
Twickenham, where he chose to build his retreat, Sandycombe Lodge. This talk
takes its title from the 18th century Richmond poet, James Thomson,
whose work was still much admired many decades after his death, and whose
verses were in Turner’s mind as he walked and sketched his way along Richmond
Hill to capture the moods of the river and famous view.
Catherine
Parry-Wingfield is an art historian with a long career in teaching and
lecturing, specialising in the visual arts of 18th and early 19th
century Britain and Europe. She was a
trustee of Turner’s House Trust from its inception in 2005, and chair from 2013
to 2019, during which time she was actively engaged as a member of the
conservation project team, particularly with the presentation of the
interior. She has written two booklets, J.M.W. Turner, R.A. - the artist and his
house at Twickenham and J.M.W. Turner
and the ‘Matchless Vale of Thames’ (both available from Turner’s House).
Tuesday
27th April, 7pm ‘Understanding the Fine Print: Turner's Picturesque
Views on the Southern Coast of England’ with Nichola Moorby.
Chaired by Romy Murray
For
almost his entire residency of Sandycombe Lodge, Turner would have been working
on the print publication, Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England,
his first major independent series of topographical views. This talk will
discuss the background and circumstances of the project, particularly focusing
on the techniques and skill of Turner and his printmakers, as well as revealing
the highs and lows of their professional collaborations.
Nicola
Moorby is an independent art historian specialising in British art of the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Formerly at Tate Britain, where she
managed the Prints and Drawings Rooms, she was a significant contributor to
Tate's updated online catalogue of the Turner Bequest and has worked as a
curator on several exhibitions. She has contributed to numerous publications on
Turner, including as co-editor and author of How to Paint Like Turner
(Tate Publishing 2010). She has appeared on television and radio, including
most recently, Great Paintings of the World with Andrew Marr.
Tickets for all four live, interactive
lectures can be booked via Eventbrite for just £15 for the whole series. Turner’s
House, Sandycombe Lodge, 40 Sandycoombe Road, St Margarets, Twickenham TW1 2LR
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