Joanna Price, Tate
Joanna Price is a painter based in east London who also works as an art-handling technician at Tate. She is represented by Gallerie Heufelder-Koos in Munich, and currently exhibiting in a figurative exhibition created by the Hypokunsthalle in Munich and next opening in Bern. Further information: www.heufelder-koos.de
View of the Wharfe Valley from Otley Chevin circa 1808
from Freiburg Sketchbook [Finberg CCCXXXV], Fribourg 1841
![Turner, from Freiburg Sketchbook [Finberg CCCXXXV], Fribourg 1841](/britain/exhibitions/drawingfromturner/works/turner/D33558.jpg)
Normally when I make a drawing from a landscape, the eye gets to dart around, resting on one part too long, and getting tired of fighting the overall chaos. I have always envied Claude, and Van Gogh and John Virtue, for their ability to impose style over the random.
Turner has a calm hand, all the items are drawn without overlap, and without adding false curves and embellishments, so I followed him gratefully for hours, noting his lack of trickery and wishing I could also borrow his patient character. Possibly our eyes have been spoilt for this kind of thing by seeing landscape so often through photography.
What I took away with me was a renewed interest in line.