William Turnbul is a British painter and sculptor who followed the surrealist movement. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1946 to 1948, then moved to Paris, France in 1950. While in Paris he befriended Eduardo Paolozzi , Constantine Brancusi,and Alberto Giacometti, all of whom influenced his work. Saint Michaels College owns a set of nine paintings in Turnbul's Consists of Fugue Collection.
"Much modern art is the result of a stripping down to essentials, and an inquiry into one particular thing at the expense of everything else, so that one finds in a Turnbull painting apparently nothing but one colour plane meeting another."