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Sheila Hancock takes an exclusive look at Turner's 'Blue Rigi'

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Having recently finished filming a series for the BBC on watercolour and travel, actress Sheila Hancock is invigorated by what she regards as the often underestimated medium of watercolour.

In this short film she visits Tate Britain’s Prints and Drawings Room, where she is given an up-close view of JMW Turner’s The Blue Rigi, Sunrise 1842 (one of the several Turner pictures that features in Tate Britain’s Watercolour exhibition), as well as the chance to see the travelling watercolour palette that the artist used to carry around in the 1830s.

J.M.W. Turner's paintbox in the Prints and Drawings Rooms

Watercolour opens at Tate Britain on 16 February.

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