‘When I see you fast on the deck, no wave is strong enough to stop me swimming. I leave a wake for the dolphins to jump as I churn forward, but you never grow larger and I never reach you.’

Kate Howe, 2021, oil paint and oil pastel on canvas, 200 x 200 cm. Collection: Turner, Painting.

‘One word is sufficient to establish what is the greatest difficulty of the painter’s art: to produce wavy air, as some called the wind….To give that wind…he [the painter] must give the cause as well as the effect..with mechanical hints of the strength of nature perpetually trammeled with mechanical shackles.’

-JMW Turner (from his notebooks in the archive at Tate Britain