TURNER’S Palette

Painters marry together shapes, tones, lines, marks, textures and, above all, colours, to create arrangements we then describe as compositions – just as composers of music do when arranging musical notes. The English Romantic painter JMW Turner was a virtuoso, particularly in colour, with all its glowing richness.

At the heart of his system was the studied placement of warm and cool colours next to and within each other. No painting better illustrates his use of colour than . The