A Sion College Zoom seminar with Marc Woodhead: Turner and Constable: Rivals in Landscape?

This talk will provide a comprehensive introduction to the Tate Britain exhibition Turner and Constable (27th November 2025 -12th April 2026), which commemorates the 250th anniversary of the births of these two great British artists. 

We will compare these two important English landscape painters, JMW Turner and John Constable, and consider the trajectory of each artist’s career. What was the art historical and socio-political context in which they were working? In what sense were they rivals? Why are Turner and Constable considered to be pioneers, trailblazers and originals in landscape painting? We will compare their paintings and seek to discuss the similarities and differences between their work, and in what ways their aesthetic sensibilities, and especially their perception of Nature, converge and diverge. And, most importantly, how we (personally) respond to their paintings 250 years later. Join us to reflect on these two wonderful painters. 

Marc Woodhead studied Fine Art Painting at Carlisle College of Art and Design, and Cheltenham College of Art and Design, and lectures at the National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery and Wallace Collection in London, and has also established his own company, Art History for Independent Travelers, leading tours of Italy, Spain, Holland and Germany for groups from the UK. Marc has a special interest in light, colour and line in Early Renaissance and Early Modernist painting.

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