About John Turner ("JRG")
John Turner was educated at Quarry Bank School, Liverpool, at a slight tangent
to John Lennon. He trained as a research biologist at various universities and
has worked in Britain, the USA and for short periods South America; he taught
for many years at the University of Leeds.
His interest in drawing arose from the need to illustrate his own publications,
chiefly those on the development and meaning of colour patterns in tropical
butterflies.
He trained in life-drawing initially with Pam Rex and since retiring has sought
to develop studies in grisaille of the interplay between the three dimensional
form and its flat representation. His current work is in pastel and charcoal.
He exhibits pictures with the Saturday People and at the annual "Brush
with the University" shows in Fairbairn House, Leeds. Probably his
most-seen picture is a butterfly-photograph incorporated in Rauschenberg's
construction "Rodeo Palace" (Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. NY,
1977).
He also publishes book reviews regularly in the TLS and the New York Times, and
is working on translations of poems by Verlaine and Rimbaud, some of which have
been published in "Poetry and Audience."
John lives in the Leeds area, and is married with two grown-up children. |
