Jerry Turner at the Rellik Tavern

Arts Benicia Presents Jerry Turner at the Rellik Tavern
Jerrold Turner is one of the Bay Area's prominent plein air painters and a founding member of the Outsiders, a group of plein air painters whose colorful, Fauvist style relates back to such groups as the Society of Six, the Fauves and other colorist schools. Turner is a structural engineer who graduated from UC Berkeley with BS and MS degrees in engineering. He is primarily self-taught in art and painted with Lundy Siegriest and Terry St. John. His early influences were Daubigny, Matisse, William Keith, Seldon Gile and Lundy Siegriest.

Turner has honed his plein air painting skills for many years, and has just recently introduced fantasy and surrealist elements to his work with landscapes. This emphasis on creativity and imagination is a highly modernist approach to plein air painting that adds a new depth to Turner's recent body of work. 

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