Turner’s House Trust has announced artist Professor Ken Howard OBE RA as a new patron of the Trust.

“Ken Howard has been a generous supporter of the Trust’s project to restore Sandycombe Lodge for a number of years and it is with great pleasure that we announce his acceptance of our invitation to become a patron,” said Catherine Parry-Wingfield, Turner’s House Trust chairman.

“Ken is one of the best-known contemporary British artists, and his long admiration for JMW Turner led him to follow Turner’s journeys through Switzerland, resulting in over 100 oil paintings and a magnificent record in his book Ken Howard in Switzerland: in Turner’s Footsteps.”

“Ken said with characteristic modesty that he was ‘honoured’ to be asked. We are greatly honoured that he has accepted,” Catherine added.

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The photograph below shows Ken (left) attending the first event at Sandycombe in 2011, after the Trust became the owner. This was Tea with Turner, put on by Past Pleasures in which actors playing Turner (shown here) and his father enacted scenes from Turner’s life in Twickenham.