Phil Kieffer of Stewart Galleries in Palm Springs provided the following information in August of 2006. The information is transcribed directly from a brochure of the artist's gallery with the authorization of the artist:

Born in 1941 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Bruce Turner became interested in art early in life through the influence of his late father, who had studied at the Columbia School of Art in New York City. On frequent family visits to the coast, he became intrigued not only with the majesty of the sea, but with the shimmering effects of light upon its surface. It was this dramatic impression that would be the inspiration of his early painting in the mid 1960's, when he began to concentrate on studying the sea and capturing it's ever changing mood on canvas. Then, in the spring of 1970, he exhibited his work throughout New York and New England, steadily gaining recognition among his fellow artists and winning numerous awards.

In 1972, Mr. Turner and his young family moved from the city to Rockport, a small coastal community on Massachusetts's North Shore, where he established a studio and gallery. There he would experience the full vitality of the sea with its powerful atmospheric changes challenging the artists' brush. Later, the intricately winding village streets, peaceful harbor settings, and local quarries became interesting subjects of his paintings.

Years of living in a small New England town such as Rockport has afforded Turner the environment in which to realize his life's ambition as well as the opportunity to enjoy and observe the daily activities and custom characteristics of a small and active community. Because of this, some of his later paintings have included more figuratively involved situations as well as interiors... and even more recently, some city settings.

Although the sea has always been a great inspiration for him, the artist finds that varied subject matter provides excitement and challenge for interpretation, and it is the poetry created by light, color and atmosphere that accentuates the feeling he wishes to communicate.

In addition to maintaining his Rockport studio and gallery for the past many years, Turner has served on several art juries as well as on the Board of the Rockport Art Association. He conducts workshops throughout the year and has been invited to numerous art organizations to lecture and to demonstrate his approach to painting. In 1979 he was among selected art instructors whose articles were published in American Artist magazine, and was also featured in Grumbacher's Palette Talk in 1982.

Some of the exhibitions in which Turner's paintings have been represented are the Butler Institute of American Art, The Salmagundi Club, Academic Artist Association at the Springfield Museum, Marietta College's International Exhibitions, American Artists' Professional League, Hudson Valley Art Association, Chautagua Art Association, Ogunquit Art Center, North Shore Arts Association, Rockport Art Association, and the American Fortnight Exhibition in Hong Kong, where paintings by invited American artists were shown in 1975. He has won over 36 awards, and in 1976 his painting was selected for the prestigious Louis E. Seley Purchase Prize for first place in the Salmagundi Club's annual oil exhibition.

Bruce Turner, whose work can be found in private and public collections throughout the United States and abroad, has been a member of many of the previously mentioned professional organizations and is listed in Who's Who in American Art.