The Fallacies of Hope
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JMW Turner was arguably our greatest landscape painter. He was eccentric and reclusive in later life.
James Chalklin dreams of being a painter. A chance meeting leads him into Turner's decaying world, but who is the woman that covers her face to disguise a hideous disfigurement?
As James begins to understand Turner, he begins to see that dreaming and hoping are not sufficient to turn his own life around.
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