Bill Turner

  Portrait of Bill Turner by David Goatley, 2010

Bill Turner was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and lives and works in Sidney, BC. He studied extensively with both Glenn Howarth, RCA and Andy Wooldridge and is a graduate of the Victoria College of Art.  He has successfully shown his work locally in both juried and non-juried exhibitions.

His academic training in order, symmetry, structure and problem solving has a powerful influence on his work. His consistent quest with post-painterly abstraction is best described as emotional and created through memory. It does not relate to any object, but rather to the pure unconscious perception of space and color as a whole.

Group Exhibitions

• 2009  Victoria College of Art Alumni Exhibition, University Canada West, Victoria, BC
• 2008  Victoria College of Art Alumni Exhibition, The Bay Centre, Victoria, BC
• 2007  Victoria College of Art Alumni Exhibition, Mary Winspear Cultural Centre, Sidney, BC
• 2006  Victoria College of Art Alumni Exhibition, Maltwood Gallery, Victoria, BC
• 2006  Victoria College of Art Post Graduate Exhibition, Victoria, BC
• 2005  Victoria College of Art Alumni Exhibition, Mary Winspear Cultural Centre, Sidney, BC
• 2005  Community Arts Council of Saanich Peninsula, Gallery-by-the-Sea, Sidney, BC
• 2004  Victoria College of Art Alumni Exhibition, McPherson Playhouse, Victoria, BC
• 2004  Victoria College of Art Graduate Exhibition, EC4 Galleries, Victoria, BC

Juried Exhibitions

• The Underlying Spirit - A Tribute to Emily Carr, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, BC, 2011
• Sooke Fine Arts Show, SEAPARK Leisure Complex, Sooke, BC - 2007 & 2009 
• Sidney Fine Art Show, Mary Winspear Cultural Centre, Sidney, BC - 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011.
  

Reviews

"Show of Shows, 2006 Sidney Fine Art Show"

"Bill Turner's Canvasses were a first class example of how to have fun working out the thorny theorms of abstracrt color and design. His Horizontaler Streiffen auf Blau, a study in horizontal stripes in various hue values, is a startling and delightful technical tour de force on the complementary colours of blue and orange."

- Grant Hayter-Menzies
  Peninsula News Review, October 18, 2006