Why was JMW Turner so inspired by Margate’s seas? 🌊 While living and working in Margate, JMW Turner became fascinated by the wild energy of the North Sea—its storms, its shifting light, its unstoppable force. In Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate (c.1840), now on view at Turner, you can still see the thick, expressive brushwork he used to capture the chaos of the waves. Turner mixed his oils with a medium called megilp, giving the paint a rich, almost sculptural texture—a technique that c