Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and J.M.W. Turner

Pairing 19th century British romantic artist J.M.W. Turner with twentieth-century American abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler, the latest exhibition at the Turner Contemporary in Margate traverses sea, space and time.

The show explores the similarities between these seemingly disparate painters, and demonstrates what curator James Hamilton calls a fellowship the artists display “across thei...