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In barely two days, I’ll be in London (England, not Ontario), overseas for the first time in my life. A little hard to believe this is actually happening, but already planning to take at least one sketchbook and go to town when I, well, go to town.

With that in mind, how do vacations, breaks, and relaxation play into your own creative endeavors? How important is downtime if your creative vocation doubles as a profession? Are the endeavors relaxation itself and does even that require the odd standdown to keep the juices flowing?

Today’s header is J.M.W. Turner’s masterpiece The Fighting Temeraire (officially appended with tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838), which I’ll hopefully have the privilege to see in the “flesh” in a few days in London’s National Gallery. Turner, of course, was probably the most remarkable and transformative visual artist Britain ever produced–he began painting near-Late Baroque standards at the end of the eighteenth century and ended with anticipating Abstract Expressionism by a hundred years. The Fighting Temeraire, depicting the decrepit Trafalgar veteran at the end of her life, is one of his most famous paintings (Rain, Steam, and Speed, also in the National, is another). Trying not to make my visit all about art, but it’s gonna be hard (especially as I’m now set on visiting the intriguing John Soane’s House, full of the stuff).

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