Weather Art Challenge #2 + Winner of 10 Steem Dollars

His words reveal him to be an artist every bit as tenacious in his late years as he’d been in his youth, still making efforts to sketch the landscape, to do his work whatever the weather threw at him. In one letter, which you can see in the exhibition, Turner relates a bad cold he suffered the winter of 1837. He feared that doctor’s orders to ‘not stir out of doors until it is dry weather’ would make him ‘a prisoner all of the Winter’. Yet while the weather could from time to time hold him back, it was also the very thing that propelled his work forwards to bolder, atmospheric extremes.

In many of the works we’ve selected for the exhibition, you can see that Turner doesn’t just show us extreme weather,