Winter in Canterbury by Rose Thompson
I am truly awful at getting up in the mornings yet the morning is my favourite time of the day. I very rarely get to see the first light of the day however much I want to. I work as a barista at a coffeeshop which means every now and then the job falls to me to open up the shop during the week for the early morning commuters. This is a very early start but allows me a peaceful 15 minute walk or cycle to work before the cities population of majority students are awake. I like to sleep with my curtains open so I can photograph outside my window from my bed when I first wake up. There is a point to this story.
I have never been a huge fan of J.M.W.Turner but find it easy to romanticise about the nature of his work. Turner has become known as the 'painter of light' due to colour being at the forefront of his landscape and seascape paintings. For me, it is easy to understand why colour and light were so paramount to Turner's work, it reminds me of how I feel when I look at the first light of the day through my window and the sense of urgency I feel about capturing it with my camera. I can appreciate the difficulty Turner faced in capturing the light of a certain part of the day with his paintbrush and his canvas, something so easily achieved with a camera. Turner explored the nature of the sea or of a landscape under an ever changing sky and although his work is not everyones cup of tea it is easy to understand why his work is held in so high regard.
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