John Doman Turner’s most adventurous works include four scrolls completed during the latter part of his life. If you are a regular visitor of this website, you will have heard us talk about the Walberswick, Trinity Fair and Fairground Frieze scrolls. Now it’s time to turn our attention to the Ferry Road scroll. In 2017,… Continue reading Getting access to John Doman Turner’s ‘first’ scroll of Ferry Road, Southwold
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Ferry Road – Scroll
Title Ferry Road Artist John Doman Turner Date c.1930 – 1931 Medium Scroll Dimensions Distinguishing marks Collection Southwold Museum Exhibitions Source Southwold Museum: https://www.southwoldmuseum.org/ Richard Scott talks about the Ferry Road scroll in his book ‘Artists at Walberswick’, he writes ‘In 1930 Doman Turner had performed a practice run (of the Walberswick Scroll) by painting a… Continue reading Ferry Road – Scroll
Fairground Frieze – Scroll
Title Fairground Frieze Artist John Doman Turner Date 1934 Medium Scroll, Pencil and watercolour on paper Dimensions Height: 22.5 cm, Length: 743 cm Distinguishing marks Collection V&A Museum Exhibitions Source V&A: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120957/fairground-frieze-drawing-turner-john-doman/ Described by the V&A as a ‘very long paper frieze rolled around wooden ‘cotton reel’ composed of a series of pencil drawings and watercolours… Continue reading Fairground Frieze – Scroll
How our research led us to find where John Doman Turner’s ‘Fairground Frieze’ scroll is kept
For those of you that don’t know, John Doman Turner (25 October 1871 – 3 January 1938) was a deaf British painter and member of the Camden Town Group. There was little known about his works for many years, but in recent times, more and more of his work is beginning to surface – the most recent being… Continue reading How our research led us to find where John Doman Turner’s ‘Fairground Frieze’ scroll is kept
Trinity Fair – Scroll
Title Trinity Fair Artist John Doman Turner Date 1933 Medium Scroll Dimensions Distinguishing marks Collection The Swan Hotel, Southwold Exhibitions Source The Swan Hotel https://theswansouthwold.co.uk/ ‘Trinity Fair was instigated by the Town Charter of 1489, which entitled Southwold to hold an annual fair on the three days following Trinity Sunday. It’s origins are even older, in… Continue reading Trinity Fair – Scroll
Video footage of the Trinity Fair scroll at Swan Hotel, Southwold
During our visit to see John Doman Turner’s scroll in Southwold in 2012, with permission, we were lucky enough to take some photos and video footage of the works, which we have compiled into the following video for others to see. This scroll is known as The Trinity Fair, and presented alongside this wonderful work of… Continue reading Video footage of the Trinity Fair scroll at Swan Hotel, Southwold
Visiting John Doman Turner’s scrolls at Walberswick and Southwold
March 11th, 2012 was one of those unusually ‘perfect’ days. As we looked from our window, we were overwhelmed by the gorgeous blue sky and the sun rising from the East. It seemed to be hovering over our destination – the Suffolk coast. Stephen, my son, and I were making the journey to Walberswick, an… Continue reading Visiting John Doman Turner’s scrolls at Walberswick and Southwold