Ben Langlands & Nikki Bell on Turner

'Turner anticipated modernity and the ever increasing speed and immediacy of communications, by focusing on the simultaneity of light, space, and time.

Working in all elements: air, land, and sea; and with all aspects: landscape, seascape, cityscape, architecture, interiors, and people, he engaged both history and the future simultaneously.

For these reasons he is an inspiration to us today. He was experimental, innovative, and self reliant - a natural, radical artist who travelled widely, and opened his own studio and gallery directly to the public.'