William Turner

ArtModo is lucky enough to have a number of pieces available by the contemporary Northern England artist William Turner. Please enquire for more details if you are a serious collector of his works.

William Turner was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock in 1920 and of the tranche of Northern Industrial painters that included LS Lowry, Kenneth Gribble, Alan Lowndes, Theodore Major, Harold Riley etc.

 

 

He studied part time at Derby School of Art whilst on release from the Royal Ordnance Corps during WW2 and after the war enrolled at Manchester School of Art also spending much time at the Crane Kalman Gallery in Manchester.

William Turner successfully reinterpreted German Expressionists and French Fauves, applying their techniques and use of colour to his familiar North West of England industrial landscape.

He was lucky in gaining encouragement and good advice from LS Lowry who visited William Turner exhibitions in Manchester. William Turner painted many industrial scenes of the Salford and Manchester area before those landscapes disappeared for good as they now have.

William Turner has been the opposite of a self-publicist and although exhibiting his works, many of his treasures have laid undiscovered for years. Many prominent collectors have become aware of William Turner only in recent years and now it is fair to say that there is something of a clamour for his work. Rightly so of course as it widely enjoyed by the art-world and by elder members of industrial Lancashire and other northern mill areas who are transported vividly back to younger days.

The website is still being developed and only two smaller works by William Turner are available to show at the moment. These water-colours are both from 1959...

We will be glad to display more William Turner images within our collection as time permits.