Turner: Northern Exposure opening at The Granary Gallery in Berwick-upon-Tweed, from 25th May – 13th October.
The exhibition will display 13 works from Turner’s first tour of the North of England which the artist credited with launching his career. Turner was just 22 in 1797 when he spent three months sketching in Northumberland, the Lake District and Yorkshire. He set out an architectural draftsman, intent on visiting the abbeys, castles and cathedrals of the North. He returned as a poet of the landscape sublime, with sketchbooks full of subjects that he returned to again and again throughout his life.
The subjects he painted during this tour, were ones he returned to many times throughout his life, including Norham Castle. A repeat visit in 1845 produced one of his most famous works Norham Castle, Sunri.
The loans for this exhibition are supported by the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund. Created by the Garfield Weston Foundation and Art Fund, the Weston Loan Programme is the first ever UK-wide funding scheme to enable smaller and local authority museums to borrow works of art and artefacts from national collections.