OS Map: Explorer 350 – Edinburgh: Musselburgh & Queensferry The lush woodlands of the Hermitage inspired Wordsworth, Mendelssohn and Turner to rapture.
"By understanding the whole picture we can all make informed decisions about what we consume," says Turner.
Despite the impressive finishing, the game lacked finesse for long spells and McCormack almost capitalised on slack Wigan defending for a second time after latching on to a cross-field pass from Michael Turner, only for the striker to be halted by a desperate last-ditch slide from Emmerson Boyce.
One piece, a vast six-foot high sculpture made from steel by Conrad Shawcross, dominates the RA courtyard, while a specially commissioned work by Turner-nominated Jim Lambie sees the gallery's central staircase transformed into a multi-coloured artwork.
Some real surprises this morning as the Bafta nominations were announced: observers were startled at the non-showing of Mike Leigh's superlative Mr Turner, not even in the best British film category, which found room for Paddington.
Not far from the castle, Portuondo sits in a cafe, eating a croissant and reminiscing – about performing with Nat King Cole, and touring the world as a solo artist.
But the image-making in the film was a challenge, not least because one of the oddities about Turner, as Leigh explains, is that if you compare portraits of him, he looks different in each one.
"Mrs Booth did not really know who Turner was, she knew nothing about painting".
Many times over the past decade and in the middle of making other films – All or Nothing, Happy-Go-Lucky, Another Year – Mike Leigh and his cinematographer, Dick Pope, would look at the sky and then at one another and say: "Oh God, we must make our Turner film".
After the five-star critical adulation that greeted Mike Leigh's new film in Cannes, prospects for Mr Turner always looked strong.
If Ebola were to become endemic, said Turner, the virus would have to mutate a little.
