Born: 1958 Stockton, California
Studied:  Art Center College of Design, B.F.A , Pasadena, California, Eastern Oregon State University, California State University, Sacramento
Currently lives and works in Pasadena, California

Turner has received critical acclaim for his moody psychological landscapes and cityscapes, images of buildings and monuments as well as trains that move across his canvases depicting the passage of time.  He is attracted to moments of transition, to the rapid changes in diffuse light at dawn and dusk, or the intense but fleeting colors of nature.  Turner’s strength lies in his skill at creating an atmosphere and his ability to suggest movement and transition, permanence and stability.  His attention to change is what unites his landscape with his portrait compositions.   Turner creates paintings that reveal how we as individuals and our natural surroundings are constantly shifting and evolving.

Turner’s portraits are thickly painted, lush and luminous swaths of color that converge into human form with all the power of a vortex focusing its energy on a single, distinctive element–the sparkle of an eye, the set of the jaw. These particularities emerge in the midst of dense, swirling colors and appear in a flash, like the moment of recognition when the face of a friend comes into focus at a distance.

Turner’s works are in numerous private and public collections including the Pasadena Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Akron Museum of Art, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia, Wichita Art Museum, among many others.