James r turner artist images
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About Jim Turner: I have been fascinated by birds in art for years, a compulsion I no doubt acquired from my birder wife and the beauty, wonder, color and variety of birds she exposed me too. Like so much in life, just paying attention can bring a new appreciation and love of any part of the natural world. I recently started adding birds to my sketch-book, and out of that grew a couple paintings, and a couple more and soon I had a “series” going! This show will highlight not just the birds, but my fasciation with experimenting with different techniques and media in painting and even sculpture. Although most of the images come from my own photo’s and imagination, I have used others photos as reference for some paintings, though I have tried to make them my own, and not just copies. I hope you enjoy the journey!
About Patty Carmody Smith: I love to combine materials and techniques; this makes mixed media a perfect fit for expressing my artistic vision. Ther
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Biography
(American, b. 1922 - d. 2011)
A well regarded Cincinnati artist, Turner was a prominent member of the Cincinnati Watercolor Society. He worked with and appreciated the timeless medium for several decades. Turner also worked in advertising art for almost forty years as a professional re-toucher. His airbrush illustrations were used in industry, architecture, and retail sales.
With his fine art works, Turner preferred painting watercolor on location, which allowed him to connect with and capture the atmosphere of the subject with more immediacy than studio painting. He painted in Maine, up-state New York, and Vermont but preferred to capture the Cincinnati area.
Turner continuously strove to learn new avenues of expression through painting ansträngande to capture the essence of what he saw. “More fryst vatten less and less fryst vatten more” was his mindset regarding his method of painting, which allowed space for the viewer to get emotionally involved.
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Jim Turner
By Artist Profile
| March 10, 2021
For upwards of four decades, Jim Turner has worked across media, and genre, voraciously. An upcoming retrospective, at Bathurst's Velvet Buzzsaw gallery, teems over with work that is both the archive of a vibrant creative life and a freestanding, variegated world of its own.
Many of Turner’s works can be understood as documents weaving the artist’s personal history into broader socio-cultural narratives from twentieth-century Australia. The print of Turner’s painting The Battle of the Bismarck Sea, for example, bears the traces of a number of periods in the artist’s and the country’s lives. On one hand, it is a fascinating – almost Romantic – exercise in history painting, flushed as it is with colour and movement, and inflected by Turner’s own experience as a pilot and service in the Australian Navy as a signal operator. On another, it is itself a well-traveled, a