Below is a JMW Turner watercolour titled A River in the Campagne. It was the first time that these Turner paintings had been shown in Edinburgh, they are normally exhibited in Dublin, just for the month of January. This year Edinburgh and Dublin did a swap. It was much busier than usual of course and we ended up standing in a queue for over two hours before we could get in, the first hour we were actually outside in the cold, it was a relief to get into the building.
The painting below is of Bellinzone, Switzerland. This exhibition was so crowded I couldn’t get a straight view of most of the paintings, hence the squinty photo below!
Below is Turner’s view of Sunset at Ostend Harbour. He had a great way with skies.
Below is a very stormy Plymouth.
Below is a very different sort of storm at the Grand Canal in Venice.
Below is The Doge’s Palace in Venice.
Turner’s Fishing Boats at Folkstone is below.
Below is his view of Edinburgh which as you can see has a lot of reflections in it, so annoying.
The painting below is of a beech tree, maybe not as dramatic as the rest of the paintings in the exhibition but it’s beautifully detailed. As ever, click on the photgraphs if you want to see them enlarged.
Hi Katrina, such beautiful works! My goodness though, that is a long wait. Thank you for sharing.
Amanda,
That was the second time we had been to see the exhibition, the first time we couldn’t stay in the queue as we had to get back to the car – or get a parking ticket! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
What beautiful artwork! I’m so glad your long wait paid off and that you were able to post those photographs…thanks.
Paula,
I’m glad that you enjoyed the blogpost.
What a marvelous exhibition!
Stefanie,
It was definitely worth the wait to get in to see it!