Turner is known as the painter of light

Turner paid close attention to natural and architectural aspects in the early stages of his creative career. His landscapes acquired a more brilliant and atmospheric aspect in the 1810s, and he began to place more emphasis on color than on the specifics of the topography itself. Turner began to pay less and less attention to specifics as time went on and paid more attention to the overall effects of color and light. He became more and more enthralled by the surrounding environment. With just a hint of movement, his compositions become more fluid. Future generations valued these vibrant abstractions from his mature years more.

Turner painted and sketched throughout the day and in all types of weather. He painted mist, rain, snow, sunrises, and sunsets. Along with oils, he also worked with watercolors and sketches, but it was the impact of the previous two that would shape his own personal style, which frequently employed oil paint in a wide, transparent manner to create settings of immense light and color. Turner is known as "the painter of light" due to his innovative interpretations of light and color in his works of art.

Turner gained popularity for his work's distinctly bright look in the second half of his career. Turner has no established method; instead, he moves the colors about until he has fully portrayed the concepts in his head. Turner was unafraid to chase the most gloss and brilliance he could extract from his color scheme while accomplishing this. Turner's expressive use of paint was even more avant-garde than his delicate color scheme. Turner was capable of accurately portraying a scene, but his approach evolved with time, frequently forsaking definition in favor of brilliant expressiveness.