Turner Watercolours Illustrated by Merrilee Liddiard “To call Ingrid a florist

“To call Ingrid a florist is reductive

Annabeth Gish

though they’re sometimes surprised by his materials—who could forget the tower he built using dirty diapers

“This fur-raising one-to-10-and-back-again counting book perfectly captures the rollicking

In her ninth decade

Turner Watercolours Illustrated by Merrilee Liddiard “To call Ingrid a floristFew can doubt that J. M. W. Turner (17751851) was the greatest exponent of British watercolor in its golden age. An inveterate traveler in search of the ideal vista, he rarely left home without a rolled up, loose bound sketchbook, pencils, and a small traveling case of watercolors in his pocket. He exploited as no one before him the mediums luminosity and transparency, conjuring light effects on English meadows and Venetian lagoons and gauzy mists